This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you use our comprehensive suite of AI tools and services at Cliptics.com. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience when using our services. This policy applies to all features available on our platform, including but not limited to our Text-to-Speech service, Image Editor, Background Removal tools, Hashtag Generator, Content Idea Generator, Video Tools, Audio Processing, Document Converters, QR Code Generators, Color Tools, Text Utilities, SEO Tools, Social Media Tools, and all other AI-powered utilities we provide. We understand the importance of protecting your personal information and are committed to processing it responsibly and in compliance with applicable data protection laws including GDPR, CCPA, and other relevant privacy regulations.

When you use our services, we collect several types of information to provide, improve, and optimize our AI tools and user experience: Technical Information: We collect your IP address (stored in encrypted format), country location, browser type, device information, and operating system primarily for service limitation purposes, security measures, and service optimization. This helps us prevent abuse, ensure fair usage of our services across different geographic regions, and provide region-appropriate content. Service Usage Information: To manage our daily usage limits, improve our services, and understand user preferences, we maintain comprehensive records of how our AI tools are used. This includes which tools you access, frequency of use, processing times, and general usage patterns. This information is anonymized and used for service optimization and development of new features. User Behavior Analytics: Through our integration with analytics platforms including Google Analytics and Grow by Mediavine, we track user interactions, navigation patterns, feature engagement, click-through rates, session duration, user journey flows, page views, form interactions, and tool usage patterns. Grow by Mediavine specifically helps us collect first-party data through user consent mechanisms, track social sharing behavior, content preferences, and engagement patterns to optimize user experience and provide personalized content recommendations. Temporary Storage: When you use our AI tools, your browser may temporarily store certain data (for 6-24 hours) to improve your experience and prevent unnecessary data reprocessing. This includes cached results, user preferences, and session data. This data remains in your browser and is automatically cleared. Contact Information: If you choose to join our waitlist or submit a contact form, we collect your email address and any additional information you provide to communicate with you. This information is used for responding to inquiries, sending service updates, and providing customer support. User-Provided Content: When you use our AI tools, we process the content you provide (such as text for speech conversion, images for editing, videos for processing, documents for conversion, etc.). This content is processed in real-time and is not permanently stored on our servers. Content is only retained temporarily during processing and is automatically deleted after processing is complete. Social Sharing Data: Through Grow by Mediavine, we may collect information about how users share our content across social networks, which content is most engaging, and user preferences for content discovery and recommendations.

We use the collected information to provide, improve, and optimize our services in several ways: Service Delivery: Your information helps us deliver our extensive range of AI tools effectively, ensuring you receive accurate outputs for your inputs while maintaining appropriate usage limits and service quality across all our tools and features. Usage Restriction and Fair Access: We use encrypted IP addresses to implement usage restrictions, prevent service abuse, and ensure fair access to our free services for all users across different geographic regions. Service Improvement and Development: We analyze usage patterns, user behavior data, and feedback to understand how our tools are being used, which features are most valuable, and what new tools or improvements would benefit our users. This data drives our product development roadmap and helps us prioritize new features. Personalization: Through Grow by Mediavine and other analytics tools, we provide personalized content recommendations, optimize user workflows, and customize experiences on our platform based on user preferences and engagement patterns. Communications: When you provide your email address, we use it to respond to your inquiries, send service-related notifications, provide customer support, and, with your consent, share updates about new features, tools, or services that might interest you. Security and Fraud Prevention: We use technical information, including encrypted IP addresses and usage patterns, to protect our services against unauthorized access, prevent abuse, detect fraudulent activity, and ensure fair usage of our platform. Quality Assurance and Performance Monitoring: Technical data and usage analytics help us monitor our services' performance, identify and resolve issues, optimize processing speeds, and maintain high service quality across all our tools. Legal Compliance: We may use your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests. Content Optimization: Using insights from Grow by Mediavine, we optimize our content strategy, improve user engagement, and develop features that better serve our user community.

We work with trusted third-party services to provide our AI tools, analyze website usage, and deliver advertising. These partnerships are essential for delivering high-quality services: AI Processing Services: We use multiple specialized AI services and APIs to process your content across our various tools (such as text-to-speech conversion, image editing, video processing, document conversion, etc.). While these services process your input data, they are bound by strict data processing agreements and do not receive unnecessary personal information about you. Analytics and User Journey Tracking: • Google Analytics helps us understand how users interact with our website and tools, providing insights about user behavior, popular tools, user journey flows, and performance metrics. • Grow by Mediavine is a comprehensive engagement platform that helps us track detailed user interactions, social sharing behavior, content engagement, and user preferences. Grow by Mediavine operates on a consent-based model for personalized advertising and collects first-party data to improve user experience while respecting user privacy choices. This service provides insights into how users navigate and interact with our various AI tools and helps us optimize content recommendations. Advertising Partnerships: • Google AdSense is used to display relevant advertisements based on your interests and browsing behavior. • *This Site is affiliated with Monumetric (dba for The Blogger Network, LLC) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Monumetric will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Monumetric's data usage, click here: Publisher Advertising Privacy* • These advertising partners may use cookies and similar technologies to deliver personalized advertisements and measure ad performance while respecting user consent preferences. Security and Performance: Cloudflare services help protect our website, ensure optimal performance, and provide DDoS protection. This includes basic security measures, content delivery optimization, and performance enhancement. Social Media Integration: Through Grow by Mediavine, we may integrate with various social media platforms to enable content sharing and provide social engagement features. All third-party services we use are carefully selected and bound by data protection agreements. We ensure they handle your information responsibly and in accordance with applicable privacy laws and industry best practices. Grow by Mediavine specifically adheres to GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations through their Consent Management Platform (CMP).

Protecting your information is a top priority for us. We implement multiple layers of security measures to safeguard your data: Encryption: All data transmission between your browser and our servers occurs over secure HTTPS connections using industry-standard TLS encryption, ensuring your information remains private and secure during transfer. Data Encryption at Rest: Sensitive information, including IP addresses, is stored in encrypted format to prevent unauthorized access even in the unlikely event of a data breach. Infrastructure Security: We use secure cloud infrastructure with industry-standard security practices, including regular security assessments, vulnerability scanning, automated security updates, and monitoring systems to protect against potential threats. Access Controls: We maintain strict access controls and authentication mechanisms to ensure that your information is only accessible to authorized personnel for specific, necessary purposes. We implement role-based access controls and regular access reviews. Data Minimization: We collect and retain only the information necessary to provide our services (primarily encrypted IP addresses for usage restrictions), minimizing the amount of personal data we handle and regularly reviewing our data collection practices. Regular Security Audits: We conduct regular security audits and assessments to identify and address potential vulnerabilities in our systems and processes. Incident Response: We maintain an incident response plan to quickly address any potential security issues and notify affected users as required by applicable laws. Third-Party Security: We ensure that all third-party services we use, including Grow by Mediavine, maintain appropriate security standards and are regularly assessed for compliance with our security requirements.

We maintain different retention periods for different types of information based on the purpose for collection and legal requirements: Browser Storage: Any data stored in your browser (including temporary processing data and cached results) is automatically deleted after 6-24 hours, ensuring temporary data doesn't accumulate unnecessarily. User-Generated Content: Content you process through our tools is not permanently stored. Content is retained only during processing and is automatically deleted within minutes to hours after processing completion. Contact Information: Email addresses and other contact information are retained until you request their deletion, unsubscribe from our communications, or as required for legal compliance. Usage Data and Analytics: Information about service usage and user behavior is retained for 12-24 months to maintain service quality, prevent abuse, and improve our services. Encrypted IP addresses used for usage restrictions are retained for 30-90 days. Analytics data is anonymized after 90 days. Grow by Mediavine Data: Data collected through Grow by Mediavine is subject to their data retention policies, which are designed to comply with applicable privacy laws while providing ongoing service functionality. Legal Hold: In some cases, we may need to retain information for longer periods to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, or enforce our agreements. We regularly review our retention periods to ensure we're not keeping data longer than necessary and have automated processes to delete data when retention periods expire.

We respect your rights regarding your personal information and provide several ways to control your data: Access: You have the right to request information about what personal data we hold about you, including the sources of that data and how it's being used. Deletion: You can request the deletion of your personal information from our systems. We process such requests within 1-7 business days, subject to legal retention requirements. Rectification: You can request corrections to any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you. Data Portability: Where applicable and technically feasible, you can request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used format. Opt-Out Rights: You can opt out of analytics tracking, personalized advertising, and marketing communications at any time while still receiving essential service-related notifications. Cookie Management: You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings or our cookie management tools. Grow by Mediavine Choices: If you interact with Grow by Mediavine features on our site, you can manage your preferences for personalized advertising and content recommendations through their consent management platform. Account Control: Currently, we do not offer user accounts. All interactions with our platform are conducted on a per-session basis. Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on consent for processing your data, you can withdraw that consent at any time. These rights can be exercised by contacting our support team at [email protected], and we're committed to responding to all requests promptly and transparently. Some rights may be subject to limitations based on applicable laws or legitimate business interests.

As a global service, your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your own. We ensure appropriate safeguards are in place for such transfers: Adequate Protections: We only transfer data to countries that provide adequate protection for personal data or under appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses. Third-Party Compliance: Our third-party service providers, including Grow by Mediavine, are required to implement appropriate safeguards for international data transfers and comply with applicable data protection laws. Legal Basis: We ensure that all international transfers have a valid legal basis under applicable privacy laws, including GDPR Article 44-49 where applicable.

Our services have different age requirements depending on the type of tool: General Tools: For most of our tools and features, our services are not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. AI-Powered Tools: For AI-powered tools and services, our platform is intended for users who are 18 years of age or older. These tools may process complex content and require mature judgment to use appropriately. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the applicable age limit, we will take immediate steps to delete that information. If you believe we have collected information from a child under the applicable age requirements, please contact us immediately at [email protected].

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, legal requirements, or privacy practices. When we make significant changes, we will: • Notify users via email (if you've provided an email address) • Post a notice on our website • Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we protect your information. Your continued use of our services after any changes indicates your acceptance of the updated policy.

Under applicable data protection laws, we process your personal information based on the following legal bases: Legitimate Interests: We process encrypted IP addresses and usage data based on our legitimate interest in preventing service abuse, ensuring fair access to our free services, and maintaining platform security. Consent: Where required by law, we obtain your consent for analytics tracking, personalized advertising, and marketing communications. Service Provision: Processing is necessary to provide the AI tools and services you request. Legal Compliance: We may process data to comply with applicable laws and regulations.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please don't hesitate to contact us: Email: [email protected] We're committed to addressing your concerns and ensuring transparency in our data handling practices. For specific data-related requests, please include relevant details to help us process your request efficiently. We typically respond to all privacy-related inquiries within 2 business days. For complaints or concerns that we cannot resolve directly, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.