Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July 10, 2025  

INTRODUCTION
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‍Welcome toCodeFlash^TM,the AI-powered performance optimizer for Python code. At CodeFlashInc. ("CodeFlash," "we," "us," or"our"), we take your privacy and data security extremelyseriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use,disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website,products, or services (collectively, the "Services"). ThisPrivacy Policy applies to any information you provide by using ourservices or website, or in person, by phone, email, text orotherwise.

Your continueduse of the Services (and following the publication of any updates)shall signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy and our policies andpractices, please do not use our Services or our website.
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‍Questions orconcerns? Reading this Privacy Policy will help you understand yourprivacy rights and choices. If you still have any questions orconcerns, please contact us at privacy@codeflash.ai.
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‍TLDR (“TooLong Didn’t Read”): ZERO DATA RETENTION PLEDGE
‍CodeFlashoffers a strict Zero Data Retention policy for all customer code.When you pay for our Services, you may select privacy mode:
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⚫ Your code never leaves your machine unless explicitly required for delivering specific functions
⚫ We never store, log, or analyze your code for any purpose other than the immediate task of optimization
⚫ All code analysis happens locally whenever technically feasible
⚫ Any temporary processing is immediately purged after the optimization task completes
⚫ We never use your code to train our models or improve our Services

‍DATARETENTION
‍We retain youraccount information for as long as your account remains active or asneeded to provide you with our Services. We will retain and use yourinformation as necessary to comply with our legal obligations,resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.When privacymode is selected, for your source code and related data:
⚫ We maintain a strict Zero Data Retention policy
⚫ Any temporarily processed code or related content is immediately and permanently deleted from our machines once the optimization process completes (your data may persist and cache on your machines or systems)
⚫ We do not maintain archives or backups of your code
⚫ You can manually clear any cached data at any time through your account settings

‍YOUR RIGHTSAND CHOICES
‍Depending onyour location, you may have certain rights regarding your personalinformation, including:
1. Access: You can request information about the personal data we hold about you.
2. Correction: You can request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete information.
3. Deletion: You can request deletion of your account and associated personal information.
4. Data Portability: You can request a copy of your information in a structured, machine-readable format.
5. Objection: You can object to certain processing of your information.
6. Opt-Out: You can opt out of non-essential communications and certain types of automated processing.
7. To exercise these rights, please contact us at privacy@codeflash.ai. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

‍THIRD-PARTYSERVICES
‍Our Servicesmay integrate with or link to third-party services, such as GitHub.This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party services, and weare not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-partyservices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of anythird-party services you access through our Services.

‍Use of YourPersonal Data
‍Personal Datameans both Personal Information that can be used to identify you,such as your name, email address, and payment details and UsageInformation, which means anonymous, aggregate data collected throughour website, analytics and applications.  
We may useyour Personal Data for the following purposes:
⚫ To provide and maintain our Services, including to monitor the usage of our Services.
⚫ To manage your account and your registration as a user of the Services. The Personal Data you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Services that are available to you as a registered user.
⚫ For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or Services you have purchased or of any other contract with us through the Services.
⚫ To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted Services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
⚫ To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, Services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased, licensed or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
⚫ To attend and manage your requests to us.
⚫ To deliver targeted advertising to you: We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third-party vendors who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
⚫ For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by us about our Services users is among the assets transferred.
⚫ For other purposes: We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may shareyour personal information in the following situations:
‍With Service Providers: We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Services, to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited, to provide our Services, for payment processing, or to contact you.
‍For business transfers: We may share or transfer your Personal Information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of our assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
‍With affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. With business partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions. With your consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
‍Wedo not sell your Personal Information.Wetake industry standard steps to protect your Personal Data including,physical, electronic protections and through testing.

CHILDREN'SPRIVACY
‍OurServices are not directed to individuals under the age of 16, and wedo not knowingly collect Personal Information from children. If welearn that we have collected Personal Information from a child under16, we will take steps to delete such information as soon aspossible.

INTERNATIONALDATA TRANSFERS
‍CodeFlashis based in the United States, and the information we collect isgoverned by U.S. law. If you are accessing our Services from outsidethe United States, please be aware that information collected throughthe Services may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used inthe United States and other jurisdictions.Forusers in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, Asia orSwitzerland, we ensure appropriate safeguards for the transfer ofpersonal data through standard contractual clauses or other validtransfer mechanism.

‍Payments
‍Wemay provide paid products, licenses and/or services within theServices. In that case, we may use third-party services for paymentprocessing (e.g. payment processors).
Wewill not store or collect your payment card details. That informationis provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose useof your personal information is governed by their privacy policy.These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS asmanaged by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a jointeffort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express andDiscover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling ofpayment information. We use Stripeand their Privacy Policy can beviewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy
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‍BehavioralRemarketing
‍Wemay use remarketing services to advertise to you after you accessedor visited our website or used our Services. We and our third-partyvendors use cookies and non-cookie technologies to help us recognizeyour device and understand how you use our Services so that we canimprove our Services to reflect your interests and serve youadvertisements that are likely to be of more interest to you.
Thesethird-party vendors may collect, store, use, process and transferinformation about your activity on our Services in accordance withtheir privacy policies and to enable us to:
⚫ Measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our website or when using our Services
⚫ Show advertisements for our products and/or services to you on third-party websites or apps
⚫ Measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns
Someof these third-party vendors may use non-cookie technologies that maynot be impacted by browser settings that block cookies. Your browsermay not permit you to block such technologies. You can use thefollowing third-party tools to decline the collection and use ofinformation for the purpose of serving you interest-basedadvertising:
⚫ The NAI’s opt-out platform: http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/
⚫ The EDAA’s opt-out platform http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
⚫ The DAA’s opt-out platform: http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN
‍Youmay opt-out of all personalized advertising by enabling privacyfeatures on your mobile device such as Limit Ad Tracking (iOS) andOpt Out of Ads Personalization (Android).
Wemay share information, such as anonymized  email addresses (ifavailable) or other online identifiers collected on our Services tothird-party vendors. It is your choice to provide PersonalInformation to us. Wherever it is lawful and practicable, you havethe option not to identify yourself when interacting with us. Pleasebe aware that it may be necessary for us to collect your PersonalInformation to enable us to provide the Services to you. As such, ifyou do not wish to provide your Personal Information, we may not beable to provide the Services to you.
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Wecollect Usage Information from you as follows:
Location Information
We may use other data from your device to determine location, for example, information about wireless networks or cell towers near your mobile device, or your IP address. We may use and store information about your location to provide features of our Services to improve and customize the Services, for example, with more relevant content like local trends, stories, ads, and suggestions for people to follow. Links
We may keep track of how you interact with links across our Services, including our third-party services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do this to help improve our Services, to provide more relevant advertising, and to be able to share aggregate statistics such as the frequency of a particular link being clicked on.
‍Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to collect additional application usage data and to improve our Services. Cookies are small packets of data that are downloaded onto your device when you access a website. Cookies hold specific information that helps a website “remember” your actions and preferences over time. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies to better understand how you interact with our Services, to monitor aggregate usage by our users and traffic routing on our Services, to customize and improve our Services and occasionally communicate services/products via advertising means. Most applications automatically accept cookies. You can adjust your browser settings at any time to block Cookies, however please note that doing so may limit our ability to provide the Services to you.
‍Log Data
When you use our website, we may receive information (“Log Data”) such as your IP address, device information (including device and application IDs) and search terms. We use Log Data to provide, understand, and improve our Services.

‍CHANGESTO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
‍Wemay update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changesin our practices or for other operational, legal, regulatory, orbusiness reasons in our sole discretion. The updated policy will beposted on our website with a revised "Last Updated" date.We will make reasonable efforts to notify you of any material changesvia email (if we have your email address) or through a notice on ourwebsite prior to the changes becoming effective.

‍COMPLIANCEAND CERTIFICATION
‍CodeFlashmaintains compliance with industry security standards andregulations, including:
‍SOC 2 Type 2: We are SOC 2 Type 2 certified.
‍GDPR Readiness: Our privacy practices are designed with GDPR principles in mind to ensure appropriate protection for users in the European Union. We implement privacy by design, data minimization, and provide mechanisms for users to exercise their data rights.
‍CCPA Alignment: Our privacy practices align with the California Consumer Privacy Act requirements, providing California residents with appropriate privacy protections and rights regarding their personal information.
“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by CCPA Our website and  Services do not respond to Do Not Track signals.
‍NIST Cybersecurity Framework: Our security controls and practices are informed by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to ensure we implement industry-leading security practices.Ourcommitment to privacy and security is ongoing, and we regularlyreview and update our practices to maintain the highest standards ofdata protection.

‍CONTACTUS
‍Ifyou have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or ourprivacy practices, please contact us at:
‍Email:contact@codeflash.ai
‍Address:149 New Montgomery St, Fl4 CodeFlash Inc. c/o Werqwise, San FranciscoCA 94105
Forurgent matters, you can also reach our Privacy Team at (412)313-4322.