Effective May 29, 2025

We at Bond want you to understand what information we collect, and how we use and share it. Bond is a social network provided by Dots Connected Inc. (“Bond”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). Our goal is to minimize the time it takes to find the best answer to any question. To do so, we collect and analyze user information to identify answers to questions and to help you connect with people that matter to you (the “Bond Product”).

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect personal information when you use our services—including our Bond Product accessible via web or mobile application, visit our website (the “Site”), or access any other applications or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”).

Personal Information We Collect

Personal information you provide to us directly:

• Account information, such as your username and password used to log into your account, your location and date of birth, and any social media handles or other biographical information you add to your profile. We may ask you to provide us with some additional personal information about you, such as topics that interest you, a profile picture, and a bio in your profile. This information helps others get to know you and allows us to personalize your experience with the Services.
• User-provided content: We collect the data, text, questions and notes you elect to submit to the Bond Product (“Inputs”). These Inputs are determined solely by you and may, at your discretion, include personal or sensitive information (such as names, contact details, or other information). We do not require or encourage the inclusion of sensitive data in Inputs, and you are responsible for ensuring that any Inputs comply with applicable laws. When providing Inputs, you are responsible for ensuring that your conduct does not violate rights, including privacy rights, of others.  

• Generated content (outputs): When you interact with the Bond Product, we may process your Inputs to generate AI-based responses (“Outputs”) that are shown to you or other users. These Outputs may reflect, reproduce, or infer personal information from your Inputs—about you or others—even if that information was not directly written or stated.
• Questions and feedback,: When you choose to send questions and feedback to connections on the Bond Product, you provide us with the responses sent. We may review the contents of these responses if a user reports, or we otherwise detect, a potential trust and safety violation, potentially illegal or illicit activity, violations of our Terms of Service and/or any other matter of concern, as permitted by applicable laws.
• Contact information of your connections: We may, with your permission, access your mobile contact list including saved phone numbers and names, to help you connect with people you know on the Bond Product. Where you provide us with the personal information of third parties, such as your connections, it is your responsibility to inform them about the processing of their personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and to confirm that they have given their permission.
• Feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspond with us online. 

Information we obtain from third parties:

• Third-party log-in: If you create an account or log into the Services using third-party services, such as Google, we will receive your name and email address and/or phone number as permitted by your profile settings on the third-party service in order to authenticate you. The information we receive when you authenticate through a third-party service depends on the settings, permissions and privacy policies of the third-party service. You should always check the privacy settings and notices in the relevant third-party services to understand what data may be disclosed to us or shared with our Services.

Automatic data collection. When you visit, use, or interact with the Services, we automatically log certain information about your visit, use, or interactions. This information includes:

• Usage data, such as how long was spent on the Bond Product, usage history, navigation paths, account and profile settings, information about activity on the Bond Product, page or screen, access times, and duration of access, and whether marketing emails were opened or links within them clicked.

• Your interactions with others. We collect information about how you connect and interact with other users on the Bond Product. This includes details like who you engage with, how often, and in what ways. We also learn about you through other users’ activity—such as when someone you know uploads a contact list that includes you, or when our system notices you share strong similarities with another user. This helps us suggest relevant connections to enhance your experience on Bond.

• Device data, such as the computer or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers, language settings.

• Crash and diagnostic data. We use Firebase Crashlytics to collect and analyze crash reports and diagnostic data when our mobile application encounters errors. This information—such as device model, OS version, and stack traces—helps us identify, prioritize, and fix stability issues. Crashlytics data is processed under Google’s privacy policies. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, click here.

• General location information, such as city, state or geographic area. We may determine the general area from which your device accesses our Services based on information like its IP address for security reasons and to make your product experience better, for example to protect your account by detecting unusual login activity.

• Precise location-related information. If you enable Location Services on your device, we may collect precise geolocation information—such as GPS coordinates and other device signals—to add contextual relevance to your queries. We use this data to tailor and personalize the answers you receive in our platform. You can control precise geolocation settings from the operating system of your device.

We collect this information using cookies and similar technologies, which may be provided by third parties. These technologies may store information on your device or in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, and helping us understand user activity and patterns. These technologies include:

• Cookies, which are text files that websites store on a visitor’s device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser for the purpose of helping you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, enabling functionality, and helping us understand user activity and patterns.

• Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data, including on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.

• Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.

How We Use Personal Information

We use personal information for the following purposes:

To operate our Services. We use your personal information to provide, operate, and maintain our Services. This includes using your personal information to:

• Generate real-time answers to questions you receive. These responses are generated based on your Inputs, such as your notes and feedback, to improve relevance.

• Index your notes and searches for future retrieval. Your notes, questions, and search activity are privately stored and analyzed to help you rediscover relevant information later and receive better answers in the future.

• Communicate with you about our Services, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.

• Respond to your requests, questions, and feedback.

To develop and improve our Services, including:

• Personalization: We analyze your Inputs—such as notes, questions, and searches—to improve recommendations, search relevance, and Bond Product behavior. This helps the system become more helpful and tailored to you the more you use it.

• Troubleshooting and Enhancement: To monitor how the Services are used, troubleshoot issues, and improve functionality.

• Product Development: To identify opportunities for new features or products and to enhance the performance of the Bond Product.

• Surveys and research: To conduct surveys and other research about what you like about our Services and what we can do better.

For direct marketing. We may from time-to-time send you direct marketing communications as permitted by law, such as newsletters. You may opt out of our marketing communications as described in the “Opt out of marketing communications” section below.

For compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to comply with legal obligations and to defend us against legal claims or disputes, including to:

• Verify accounts and activity
• Find and address violations of our terms or policies
• Investigate suspicious activity
• Detect, prevent and combat harmful or unlawful behavior
• Detect and prevent spam and other bad experiences
• Detect when someone needs help and provide support
• Detect and stop threats to our personnel and property
• Maintain the integrity of our Services

How We Disclose Personal Information

Service providers. Your data—including Inputs and Outputs—may be disclosed to third-party providers of artificial intelligence and large language models (LLM) that power our Services. We disclose personal information to service providers that help us operate the Services, such as hosting services, cloud services, information technology services, email communication software and email newsletter services, marketing services, payment processors, user relationship management and user support services, and web analytics services.

Professional advisors. We may disclose personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may disclose personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention, and safety purposes described above. 

Business transfers. We may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our business or assets, including personal information, in connection with a business transaction (or potential business transaction) such as a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, or in the event of bankruptcy or dissolution.

Other users. Some of your information, including your username and profile picture, are visible to any signed up user. When you create notes or ask questions, you may choose a visibility level that either makes your content accessible to everyone on the platform or restricts it so that only your direct connections can view it.

Your Choices

You can choose who you ask questions to (just you, your connections, or the public).

You can choose what information you make publicly available to all users on Bond or to your connections only.

Access or update account information. Users who have registered for an account with us may review and update certain personal information in their account profile by logging into the account settings.

Delete your information or account. You can find and delete specific information or permanently delete your account. If you delete your account on Bond, we delete your information including the notes you’ve posted, subject to the below.

• Timeline for deletion. It may take up to ninety (90) days to delete your information after we begin the account deletion process or receive a content deletion request. After the information is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery.
• We reserve the right to keep information. We keep information as long as we need it to provide the Bond Product, comply with legal obligations or protect our or other’s interests. We decide how long we need information on a case-by-case basis.
• Preservation of information. We retain information to the extent needed to comply with certain legal obligations such as a legal request to comply with applicable law, a governmental investigation, a legal claim, complaint, litigation or regulatory proceeding. We may preserve your information longer to prevent harm, for safety, security, and integrity purposes. We also may preserve information from accounts that have been disabled and content that has been removed for violations of our terms and policies.

Opt-out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails and other communications by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions in the communications you receive from us or by contacting us as provided in the “How to Contact Us” section below. You may continue to receive Services-related and other non-marketing emails.

Limit tracking. There are a number of ways to limit tracking, which we have summarized below. Please note that these tools are not associated with us and we cannot guarantee that they work as their providers advertise them:

• Blocking cookies in your browser. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/.
• Using privacy plug-ins or browsers. You can block our Site from setting cookies by using a browser with privacy features, like Brave, or installing browser plugins like Privacy Badger, Ghostery, or uBlock Origin, and configuring them to block third party cookies/trackers.  

Note that because these opt-out mechanisms are specific to the device or browser on which they are exercised, you will need to opt out on every browser and device that you use.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to "Do Not Track" signals. To find out more about "Do Not Track," please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Security

We use organizational, technical and administrative measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, misuse, loss, disclosure, alteration and destruction of personal information we maintain. Unfortunately, data transmission over the Internet cannot be guaranteed as completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect personal information, we cannot guarantee its security.

Children

The Services are not directed to children under 13 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will delete it.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Services. If you are a registered user, we will notify you using the email address you gave us when you signed up if we make material changes made to the Privacy Policy.

How To Contact Us

Please direct any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy to  support@bond.now.