Effective: August 26, 2024
This Privacy Policy applies if you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland, or UK.If you live outside of the EEA, Switzerland, or UK, please refer to the Privacy Policy for the rest of the world that applies to you below.
We at Fuse respect your privacy and are strongly committed to keeping secure any information we obtain from you or about you. This Privacy Policy describes our practices with respect to Personal Data we collect from or about you when you use our website, applications, and services (collectively, “Services”).
If you live in the European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland or the UK, Fuse S.A.S., with its registered office at 61 Rue de Lyon - 75012 Paris - France, is the controller and is responsible for the processing of your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
We collect personal data relating to you (“Personal Data”) as described below:
Personal Data You Provide: We collect the following Personal Data when you communicate with us:
User Content: When you use our Services, we collect Personal Data that is included in the input, file uploads, or feedback that you provide to our Services (“Content”). Communication Information: If you communicate with us, we collect your name, contact information, and the contents of any messages you send (collectively, “Communication Information”). Social Media Information: We have pages on social media sites like Instagram, Facebook, Medium, X, YouTube and LinkedIn. When you interact with our social media pages, we collect Personal Data that you choose to provide to us, such as your contact details (collectively, “Social Media Information”). In addition, the companies that host our social media pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics about our social media activity. Other Information You Provide: We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when you participate in our events or surveys or provide us with information to establish your age or identity (collectively, “Other Information You Provide”).
Personal Data We Receive Automatically From Your Use of the Services: When you visit, use, or interact with the Services, we receive the following information (“Technical Information”):
Log Data: Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use our Services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with our Services. Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the Services, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, as well as your time zone, country, the dates and times of access, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, and your computer connection. Device Information: Includes name of the device, operating system, device identifiers, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Services;
To improve and develop our Services and new features and conduct research;
To communicate with you, including to send you information or marketing about our Services and events;
To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our systems and Services; and
To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, us, our affiliates, or any third party.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information. We aggregate or de-identify Personal Data so that it can no longer be used to identify you and use this information to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, to improve and add features to our Services, to conduct research and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may share or publish aggregated information like general user statistics with third parties. We collect this information through the Services and through other means described in this Privacy Policy. We will maintain and use de-identified information in anonymous or de-identified form and we will not attempt to re-identify the information, unless required by law.
As noted above, we use Content you provide us to improve our Services.
In certain circumstances we may disclose your Personal Data to:
Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may disclose Personal Data to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, content delivery services, data warehouse services, support and safety monitoring services, email communication software, web analytics services, payment and transaction providers, and other information technology services providers. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Data only in the course of performing their duties to us. Business Transfers: If we are involved in strategic transactions, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of service to another provider (collectively, a “Transaction”), your Personal Data and other information may be disclosed in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets. Government Authorities or Other Third Parties: We may share your Personal Data, including information about your interaction with our Services, with government authorities, industry peers, or other third parties in compliance with the law (i) if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, (ii) to protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) if we determine, in our sole discretion, that there is a violation of our terms, policies, or the law; (iv) to detect or prevent fraud or other illegal activity; (v) to protect the safety, security, and integrity of our products, employees, or users, or the public, or (vi) to protect against legal liability. Other Users and Third Parties You Share Information With: Certain features allow you to display or share information with other users. For example, you may share content on Fuse with other users via shared links.
We’ll retain your Personal Data for only as long as we need in order to provide our Service to you, or for other legitimate business purposes such as resolving disputes, safety and security reasons, or complying with our legal obligations. How long we retain Personal Data will depend on a number of factors, such as:
Our purpose for processing the data (such as whether we need to retain the data to provide our Services);
The amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data;
The potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data;
Any legal requirements that we are subject to..
You have the following statutory rights in relation to your Personal Data:
Access your Personal Data and information relating to how it is processed.
Delete your Personal Data from our records.
Rectify or update your Personal Data.
Transfer your Personal Data to a third party (right to data portability).
Restrict how we process your Personal Data.
Withdraw your consent—where we rely on consent as the legal basis for processing at any time.
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority (see below).
You have the following rights to object:
Object to our processing of your Personal Data for direct marketing at any time.
Object to how we process your Personal Data when our processing is based on our legitimate interests.
To exercise some of these right, please submit your request to contact@fuse.online.
Please note these rights may be limited, for example if fulfilling your request would reveal Personal Data about another person, or if you ask us to delete information that we are required by law or have compelling legitimate interests to keep.
We hope that we are able to address any questions or concerns you may have. If you have any unresolved complaints with us or our Data Protection Officer, you can reach out to your local supervisory authority. For any unresolved complaints relating to the UK you can reach out to the Information Commissioner's Office and for Switzerland, to the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner
A note about accuracy: Services like Fuse generate responses by reading a user’s request and, in response, predicting the words most likely to appear next. In some cases, the words most likely to appear next may not be the most factually accurate. For this reason, you should not rely on the factual accuracy of output from our models. If you notice that Fuse output contains factually inaccurate information about you and you would like us to correct the inaccuracy, you may submit a correction request to contact@fuse.online. Given the technical complexity of how our models work, we may not be able to correct the inaccuracy in every instance. In that case, you may request that we remove your Personal Data from Fuse output by sending a message to contact@fuse.online.
Our Services are not directed to, or intended for, children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 13. If you have reason to believe that a child under 13 has provided Personal Data to Fuse through the Services, please email us at contact@fuse.online. We will investigate any notification and, if appropriate, delete the Personal Data from our systems. Users under 18 must have permission from their parent or guardian to use our Services.
When we process your Personal Data for the purposes described above, we rely on the following legal bases:
Purpose of processing
Type of Personal Data processed, depending on the processing activity:
Legal basis, depending on the process activity:
To provide and maintain our Services
Where necessary to perform a contract with you, such as processing a user’s prompts to provide a response.
To improve and develop our Services and new features and conduct research
Where necessary for our legitimate interests and those of third parties and broader society, including in developing, improving, or promoting our Services, such as when we train and improve our models.
To communicate with you, including to send you information or marketing about our Services and events
Where necessary to perform a contract with you, such as processing your contact information to send you a technical announcement about the Services. Your consent when we ask for it to process your Personal Data for a specific purpose that we communicate to you, such as processing your contact information to send you certain forms of marketing communications.
To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our systems and Services
Where necessary to comply with a legal obligation.Where we are not under a specific legal obligation, where necessary for our legitimate interests and those of third parties, including in protecting our Services from abuse, fraud, or security risks, such as processing data from security partners to protect against fraud, abuse and security threats in our Services.
To comply with legal obligations and to protect the rights, privacy, safety, or property of our users, us, our affiliates, or any third party
Where necessary to comply with a legal obligation, such as retaining transaction information to comply with record-keeping obligations.Where we are not under a specific legal obligation, where necessary for our legitimate interests and those of third parties and broader society, including in protecting our or our affiliates’, users’, or third parties’ rights, safety, and property, such as analyzing log data to identify fraud and abuse in our Services.
We might transfer your Personal Data to recipients outside of the EEA, Switzerland and the UK for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. If you are based in the EEA, Switzerland or the UK and your Personal Data is transferred to a third country, that third country may not offer the same level of data protection as your home country. However, we transfer Personal Data pursuant to applicable data protection laws. To transfer your Personal Data outside of the EEA, Switzerland or the UK, we rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decisions on certain countries and, for other jurisdictions, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses as approved by the European Commission and any applicable country addenda.
By using our Services, you understand and acknowledge that your Personal Data will be processed and stored in our facilities and servers worldwide and may be disclosed to our service providers and affiliates in other jurisdictions.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by applicable law.
Please send us a message at contact@fuse.online if you have any questions or concerns not already addressed in this Privacy Policy. Alternatively, you can write to us at the address above under Section 1 (Data Controller).
Effective: August 26, 2024
We’ve updated our Privacy Policy below. These updates do not apply to individuals located in the European Economic Area, UK, and Switzerland. If you reside in the European Economic Area, UK, and Switzerland, please refer to the specific Terms of Use for the EEA, Switzerland and UK that apply to you above.
We at Fuse respect your privacy and are strongly committed to keeping secure any information we obtain from you or about you. This Privacy Policy describes our practices with respect to Personal Information we collect from or about you when you use our website, applications, and services (collectively, “Services”).
We collect personal information relating to you (“Personal Information”) as follows:
Personal information you provide: We collect Personal Information if you create an account to use our Services or communicate with us as follows:
User Content: When you use our Services, we collect Personal Information that is included in the input, file uploads, or feedback that you provide to our Services (“Content”). Communication Information: If you communicate with us, we collect your name, contact information, and the contents of any messages you send (“Communication Information”). Social Media Information: We have pages on social media sites like Instagram and LinkedIn. When you interact with our social media pages, we will collect Personal Information that you elect to provide to us, such as your contact details (collectively, “Social Information”). In addition, the companies that host our social media pages may provide us with aggregate information and analytics about our social media activity. Other Information You Provide: We collect other information that you may provide to us, such as when you participate in our events or surveys or provide us with information to establish your identity (collectively, “Other Information You Provide”
Personal information we receive automatically from your use of the Services: When you visit, use, or interact with the Services, we receive the following information about your visit, use, or interactions (“Technical Information”):
Log Data: Information that your browser or device automatically sends when you use our Services. Log data includes your Internet Protocol address, browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interact with our Services. Usage Data: We may automatically collect information about your use of the Services, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use and the actions you take, as well as your time zone, country, the dates and times of access, user agent and version, type of computer or mobile device, and your computer connection. Device Information: Includes name of the device, operating system, device identifiers, and browser you are using. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
We may use Personal Information for the following purposes:
To provide, administer, maintain and/or analyze the Services;
To improve our Services and conduct research;
To communicate with you; including to send you information about our Services and events;
To develop new programs and services;
To prevent fraud, criminal activity, or misuses of our Services, and to protect the security of our IT systems, architecture, and networks;
To carry out business transfers; and
To comply with legal obligations and legal process and to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or other third parties.
Aggregated or de-identified information. We may aggregate or de-identify Personal Information so that it may no longer be used to identify you and use such information to analyze the effectiveness of our Services, to improve and add features to our Services, to conduct research and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Services and share aggregated information like general user statistics with third parties, publish such aggregated information or make such aggregated information generally available. We may collect aggregated information through the Services, through cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy. We will maintain and use de-identified information in anonymous or de-identified form and we will not attempt to reidentify the information, unless required by law.
In certain circumstances we may provide your Personal Information to third parties without further notice to you, unless required by the law:
Vendors and Service Providers: To assist us in meeting business operations needs and to perform certain services and functions, we may provide Personal Information to vendors and service providers, including providers of hosting services, customer service vendors, cloud services, email communication software, web analytics services, and other information technology providers, among others. Pursuant to our instructions, these parties will access, process, or store Personal Information only in the course of performing their duties to us. Business Transfers: If we are involved in strategic transactions, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, or transition of service to another provider (collectively, a “Transaction”), your Personal Information and other information may be disclosed in the diligence process with counterparties and others assisting with the Transaction and transferred to a successor or affiliate as part of that Transaction along with other assets. Legal Requirements: We may share your Personal Information, including information about your interaction with our Services, with government authorities, industry peers, or other third parties (i) if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, (ii) to protect and defend our rights or property, (iii) if we determine, in our sole discretion, that there is a violation of our terms, policies, or the law; (iv) to detect or prevent fraud or other illegal activity; (v) to protect the safety, security, and integrity of our products, employees, or users, or the public, or (vi) to protect against legal liability. Other Users and Third Parties You Share Information With: Certain features allow you to display or share information with other users or third parties. For example, you may share content on Fuse with other users via shared links. Be sure you trust any user or third party with whom you share information.
Depending on location, individuals may have certain statutory rights in relation to their Personal Information. For example, you may have the right to:
Access your Personal Information and information relating to how it is processed.
Delete your Personal Information from our records.
Rectify or update your Personal Information.
Transfer your Personal Information to a third party (right to data portability).
Restrict how we process your Personal Information.
Withdraw your consent—where we rely on consent as the legal basis for processing at any time.
Object to how we process your Personal Information.
Lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.
To exercise some of these rights, please submit your request to contact@fuse.online.
A note about accuracy: Services like Fuse generate responses by reading a user’s request and, in response, predicting the words most likely to appear next. In some cases, the words most likely to appear next may not be the most factually accurate. For this reason, you should not rely on the factual accuracy of output from our models. If you notice that Fuse output contains factually inaccurate information about you and you would like us to correct the inaccuracy, you may submit a correction request to contact@fuse.online. Given the technical complexity of how our models work, we may not be able to correct the inaccuracy in every instance. In that case, you may request that we remove your Personal Information from Fuse’s output by sending a message to contact@fuse.online.
The following table provides additional information about the categories of Personal Information we collect and how we disclose that information. You can read more about the Personal Information we collect in “Personal information we collect” above, how we use Personal Information in “How we use personal information” above, and how we retain Personal Information in “Security and Retention” below.
Category of Personal Information
Disclosure of Personal Information
Identifiers, such as your name, contact details, IP address, and other device identifiers
We may disclose this information to our affiliates, vendors and service providers to process in accordance with our instructions; to law enforcement and other third parties for the legal reasons described above; to parties involved in Transactions; to corporate administrators of enterprise or team accounts; and to other users and third parties you choose to share it with.
Network Activity Information, such as Content and how you interact with our Services
We may disclose this information to our affiliates, vendors and service providers to process in accordance with our instructions; to law enforcement and other third parties for the legal reasons described above; to parties involved in Transactions; and to other users and third parties you choose to share it with.
Geolocation Data
We may disclose this information to our affiliates, vendors and service providers to process in accordance with our instructions; to law enforcement and other third parties for the legal reasons described above; and to parties involved in Transactions.
To the extent provided for by local law and subject to applicable exceptions, individuals may have the following privacy rights in relation to their Personal Information:
The right to know information about our processing of your Personal Information, including the specific pieces of Personal Information that we have collected from you;
The right to request deletion of your Personal Information;
The right to correct your Personal Information; and
The right to be free from discrimination relating to the exercise of any of your privacy rights.
We don’t “sell” Personal Information or “share” Personal Information for cross-contextual behavioral advertising (as those terms are defined under applicable local law). We also don’t process sensitive Personal Information for the purposes of inferring characteristics about a consumer.
Exercising your rights. To the extent applicable under local law, you can exercise privacy rights described in this section by submitting a request to contact@fuse.online.
Verification. In order to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, change, or deletion, we may require you to verify your credentials before you can submit a request to know, correct, or delete Personal Information. If you do not have an account with us, or if we suspect fraudulent or malicious activity, we may ask you to provide additional Personal Information and proof of residency for verification. If we cannot verify your identity, we will not be able to honor your request.
Authorized agents. You may also submit a rights request through an authorized agent. If you do so, the agent must present signed written permission to act on your behalf and you may also be required to independently verify your identity and submit proof of your residency with us. Authorized agent requests can be submitted to contact@fuse.online.
Appeals. Depending on where you live, you may have the right to appeal a decision we make relating to requests to exercise your rights under applicable local law. To appeal a decision, please send your request to contact@fuse.online.
Our Service is not directed to children under the age of 13. Fuse does not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to Fuse through the Service, please email us at contact@fuse.online. We will investigate any notification and if appropriate, delete the Personal Information from our systems. If you are 13 or older, but under 18, you must have permission from your parent or guardian to use our Services.
The Service may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by Fuse, including social media services (“Third Party Sites”). The information that you share with Third Party Sites will be governed by the specific privacy policies and terms of service of the Third Party Sites and not by this Privacy Policy. By providing these links we do not imply that we endorse or have reviewed these sites. Please contact the Third Party Sites directly for information on their privacy practices and policies.
We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect Personal Information both online and offline from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Service or email. In addition, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Service, or third-party websites.
We’ll retain your Personal Information for only as long as we need in order to provide our Service to you, or for other legitimate business purposes such as resolving disputes, safety and security reasons, or complying with our legal obligations. How long we retain Personal Information will depend on a number of factors, such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, our purpose for processing the information, and any legal requirements.
By using our Service, you understand and acknowledge that your Personal Information will be processed and stored in our facilities and servers worldwide and may be disclosed to our service providers and affiliates in other jurisdictions.
Legal basis for processing. Our legal bases for processing your Personal Information include:
Performance of a contract with you when we provide and maintain our Services. When we process Account Information, Content, and Technical Information solely to provide our Services to you, this information is necessary to be able to provide our Services. If you do not provide this information, we may not be able to provide our Services to you. Our legitimate interests in protecting our Services from abuse, fraud, or security risks, or in developing, improving, or promoting our Services, including when we train our models. This may include the processing of Account Information, Content, Social Information, and Technical Information.
Data transfers. Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for transferring Personal Information outside of certain countries. We will only transfer Personal Information pursuant to a legally valid transfer mechanism.
Data protection officer. You can contact our data protection officer at contact@fuse.online in matters related to Personal Information processing.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post an updated version on this page, unless another type of notice is required by applicable law.
Please contact us at contact@fuse.online if you have any questions or concerns not already addressed in this Privacy Policy.