Privacy Policy

Effective as of 12/23/2024.

This Privacy Policy describes how General Translation, Inc. (“General Translation”, “we”, “us” or “our”) processes personal information that we collect through our digital or online properties or services that link to this Privacy Policy (including as applicable, our website, social media pages, marketing activities, and other activities described in this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Service”)).

General Translation provides AI-powered translation and localization services to businesses and developers. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that we process on behalf of our customers while providing the General Translation services to them. Our use of information that we process on behalf of our business customers may be governed by our agreements with such customers. If you have concerns regarding your personal information that we process on behalf of a customer, please direct your concerns to that customer.

General Translation may provide additional or supplemental privacy policies to individuals for specific products or services that we offer at the time we collect personal information.

NOTICE TO EUROPEAN USERS: Please see the Notice to European users section below for additional information for individuals located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom (which we refer to as “Europe”, and “European” should be understood accordingly).

Index

Personal information we collect
How we use your personal information
How we share your personal information
Your choices
Other sites and services
Security
International data transfers
Child data protection
Changes to this Privacy Policy
How to contact us
Notice to European users

Personal information we collect

Information you provide to us. Personal information you may provide to us through the Service or otherwise includes:

Contact and account data, such as your first and last name, email address, billing and mailing addresses, professional title and company name, and phone number.
Communications data based on our exchanges with you, including when you contact us through the Service, social media, or otherwise.
Transactional data, such as information relating to or needed to complete your orders on or through the Service, including transaction history.
Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications and details about your engagement with them.
Payment data needed to complete transactions, including payment card information or bank account number. We may use third-party vendors to collect and process payment information online.
Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Third-party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:

Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, and other publicly available sources.
Private sources, such as data providers, social media platforms, and data licensors.
Partners, such as joint marketing partners and event co-sponsors.
Service providers that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our business.
Business transaction partners. We may receive personal information in connection with an actual or prospective business transaction. For example, we may receive your personal information from an entity we acquire or are acquired by, a successor, or assignee or any party involved in a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, and/or in the context of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
Third-party services, such as Google and GitHub, that you use to log into, or otherwise link to, your Service account. This data may include your username, profile picture, and other information associated with your account on that third-party service that is made available to us based on your account settings on that service.

Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Service, our communications, and other online services, such as:

Device data, such as your computer or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state, or geographic area.
Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Service, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.
Communication interaction data, such as your interactions with our email, text, or other communications (e.g., whether you open and/or forward emails) – we may do this through use of pixel tags (which are also known as clear GIFs), which may be embedded invisibly in our emails.

Cookies. Some of our automatic data collection is facilitated by cookies and similar technologies. For more information, see our Cookie Notice. We will also store a record of your preferences in respect of the use of these technologies in connection with the Service.

Personal information we collect

We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:

Service delivery and operations. We may use your personal information to:

Provide, operate and improve the Service and our business;
Establish and maintain your user account on the Service;
Communicate with you about the Service, including by sending Service-related announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
Understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Service and our communications; and
Provide support for the Service, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

Research and development. We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and our business and to develop new products and services.

Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications and may personalize these messages based on your needs and interests. You may opt out of our marketing communications at any time.

Service improvement and analytics. We may use your personal information to analyze your usage of the Service, improve the Service, improve the rest of our business, help us understand user activity on the Service, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Service, as well as user interactions with our emails, and to develop new products and services.

Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

Comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal processes, such as to respond to subpoenas, investigations, or requests from government authorities;
Protect our, your, or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims);
Audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies;
Enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Service; and
Prevent, identify, investigate, and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data. We may create aggregated, de-identified, and/or anonymized data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into de-identified and/or anonymized data by removing information that makes the data identifiable to you. We may use this aggregated, de-identified, and/or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.

With your consent. In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use, or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

Retention

We generally retain personal information to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for fraud prevention purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we may consider factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

When we no longer require the personal information, we have collected about you, we may either delete it, anonymize it, or isolate it from further processing.

How we share your personal information

We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, in other applicable notices, or at the time of collection. Please note where users have opted in to receive text messages from us, we will not share this with any third parties.

Service providers. Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Service or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, marketing, consumer research, and website analytics).

Payment processors. Any payment card information you use to make a purchase on the Service is collected and processed directly by our payment processors, such as Stripe. Stripe may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy, https://stripe.com/privacy.

Linked third-party services. If you log into the Service with, or otherwise link your Service account to, a third-party service such as Google or GitHub, we may share your personal information with that third-party service. The third party’s use of the shared information will be governed by its privacy policy and the settings associated with your account with the third-party service.

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

Authorities and others. Law enforcement, courts, court-appointed persons/entities, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Compliance and protection purposes described above.

Business transferees. We may disclose personal information in the context of actual or prospective business transactions (e.g., investments in General Translation, financing of General Translation, public stock offerings, or the sale, transfer, or merger of all or part of our business, assets, or shares), for example, we may need to share certain personal information with prospective counterparties and their advisers. We may also disclose your personal information to an acquirer, successor, or assignee of General Translation as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, and/or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which personal information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

Other sites and services

The Service may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

How we share your personal information

We employ a number of technical, organizational and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

International data transfer

We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country. If your use case requires an exception to this, please contact us. Users in Europe should read the important information in the ‘Notice to European users’ section about transfers of personal information outside of Europe.

Child data protection

The Service is not intended for use by anyone under 16 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Service from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.

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 Service or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your use of the Service after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acknowledging that the modified Privacy Policy applies to your interactions with the Service and our business.

How to contact us

Email: privacy@generaltranslation.com

Notice to European users

Where this Notice to European users applies. The information provided in this ‘Notice to European users’ section applies only to individuals located in the European Economic Area (EEA) or United Kingdom (UK) (i.e., “Europe” as defined at the top of this Privacy Policy).

Personal information. References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy should be understood to include a reference to “personal data” as defined in the “GDPR” (i.e., the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“EU GDPR”)) and the EU GDPR as it forms part of the laws of the United Kingdom (“UK GDPR”). Under the GDPR, “personal data” means information about individuals from which they are either directly identified or can be identified. The personal information that we collect from and about you is described in greater detail in the section “Personal Information we collect.”

Controller. General Translation is the “controller” in respect of the processing of your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy for purposes of the GDPR. See the ‘How to contact us’ section above for our contact details.

Our legal basis for processing

In respect of each of the purposes for which we use your personal information, the GDPR requires us to ensure that we have a “legal basis” for that use.

Our legal bases for processing your personal information described in this Privacy Policy are listed below.

Where we need to process your personal information in order to deliver the Service to you, or where you have asked us to take specific action which requires us to process your personal information (“Contractual Necessity”).
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (“Legitimate Interests”). More detail about the specific legitimate interests pursued in respect of each purpose we use your personal information for is set out in the table below.
Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (“Compliance with Law”).
Where we have your specific consent to carry out the processing for the Purpose in question (“Consent”).

We have set out below the legal bases we rely on in respect of the relevant purposes for which we use your personal information – for more information on these purposes and the data types involved, see the ‘How we use your personal information’ section above and the description of associated data sharing relevant to such purposes set out in the ‘How we share your personal information’ section also above.

Purpose	Categories of personal information involved	Legal basis
Service delivery and operations	Contact data Demographic data Account data Communications data Transactional data Payment data Device data	Contractual Necessity. Legitimate Interests. We have a legitimate interest in ensuring the ongoing security and proper operation of our Service, our business, and associated IT services, systems, and networks.
Service personalization	Demographic data Account data Transactional data Device data Online activity data	Legitimate Interests. We have a legitimate interest in providing you with a good service via the Service, which is personalized to you and that remembers your selections and preferences. Consent, in respect of any optional processing relevant to personalization (including processing directly associated with any optional cookies used for this purpose).
Research and development	Any and all data types relevant in the circumstances	Legitimate Interests. We have a legitimate interest in taking steps to preserve our users’ privacy as we research how they use our Service.
Direct marketing	Contact data Demographic data Account data Transactional data Marketing data Communication interaction data	Legitimate Interests. We have a legitimate interest in promoting our operations and goals as an organization and sending marketing communications for that purpose. Consent, in circumstances or in jurisdictions where consent is required under applicable data protection laws to the sending of any given marketing communications.
Service improvement and analytics	Contact data Demographic data Communications data Account data	Legitimate Interests. We have a legitimate interest in providing you with a good service and analyzing how you use it so that we can improve it over time, as well as developing and growing our business. Consent, in respect of any optional cookies used for this purpose.
Compliance and protection	Any and all data types relevant in the circumstances	Compliance with Law. Legitimate Interests. Where Compliance with Law is not applicable, we have a legitimate interest in participating in, supporting, and following legal processes and requests, including through cooperation with authorities. We may also have a legitimate interest in ensuring the protection, maintenance, and enforcement of our rights, property, and/or safety.
To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data	Any and all data types relevant in the circumstances	Legitimate interest. We have a legitimate interest in taking steps to preserve the privacy of our users.
Further uses	Any and all data types relevant in the circumstances	The original legal basis relied upon, if the relevant further use is compatible with the initial purpose for which the personal information was collected. Consent, if the relevant further use is not compatible with the initial purpose for which the personal information was collected.

Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for the ‘Compliance and protection’ purposes outlined above.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

When we no longer require the personal information that we have collected about you, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. If we anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Other information

No obligation to provide personal information. You do not have to provide personal information to us. However, where we need to process your personal information either to comply with applicable law or to deliver our Service to you, and you fail to provide that personal information when requested, we may not be able to provide some or all of our Service to you. We will notify you if this is the case at the time.

No sensitive information. We ask that you not provide us with any sensitive personal information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership, or biometric or genetics characteristic other than as requested by us as part of the Service) on or through the Service, or otherwise to us. If you provide us with any such sensitive personal information to us when you use the Service, you must consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such sensitive personal information through our Service.

Your additional rights

General. European data protection laws may give you certain rights regarding your personal information in certain circumstances. If you are located in Europe, you may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:

Access. Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.
Correct. Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
Delete. Delete your personal information where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it - you also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal information where you have exercised your right to object to processing (see below).
Transfer. Transfer to you or a third party of your choice a machine-readable copy of your personal information which you have provided to us.
Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information, for example, if you want us to establish its accuracy or the reason for processing it.
Object. Object to our processing of your personal information where we are relying on Legitimate Interests – you also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
Withdraw Consent. When we use your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

Exercising These Rights. You may submit these requests by contacting us. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Whether or not we are required to fulfill any request you make will depend on a number of factors (e.g., why and how we are processing your personal information). If we reject any request you may make (whether in whole or in part), we will let you know our grounds for doing so at the time, subject to any legal restrictions. Typically, you will not have to pay a fee to exercise your rights; however, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within a month of receipt. It may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or if you have made a number of requests; in this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Your Right to Lodge a Complaint with your Supervisory Authority. Although we urge you to contact us first to find a solution for any concern you may have, in addition to your rights outlined above, if you are not satisfied with our response to a request you make, or how we process your personal information, you can make a complaint to the data protection regulator in your habitual place of residence.

For users in the European Economic Area – the contact information for the data protection regulator in your place of residence can be found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
For users in the UK – the contact information for the UK data protection regulator can be found here: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

Data Processing outside Europe. We are a U.S.-based company and many of our service providers, advisers, partners or other recipients of data are also based in the U.S. This means that, if you use the Service, your personal information will necessarily be accessed and processed in the U.S. It may also be provided to recipients in other countries outside Europe.

Where we share your personal information with third parties who are based outside Europe, we try to ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by making sure one of the following mechanisms is implemented:

Transfers to territories with an adequacy decision. We may transfer your personal information to countries or territories whose laws have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal information by the European Commission or UK Government (as and where applicable) (from time to time) or under specific adequacy frameworks approved by the European Commission or UK Government (as and where applicable) (from time to time), such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the UK Extension thereto.
Transfers to territories without an adequacy decision.
- We may transfer your personal information to countries or territories whose laws have not been deemed to provide such an adequate level of protection (e.g., the U.S.).
- However, in these cases:
  - We may use specific appropriate safeguards, which are designed to give personal information effectively the same protection it has in Europe – for example, standard-form contracts approved by relevant authorities for this purpose; or
  - In limited circumstances, we may rely on an exception, or ‘derogation’, which permits us to transfer your personal information to such a country despite the absence of an ‘adequacy decision’ or ‘appropriate safeguards’ – for example, reliance on your explicit consent to that transfer.

You may contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal information out of Europe.