Privacy Policy
Last Updated: Jul 26, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how Cody Chat Addon (“we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, and shares information in connection with your use of our websites, services, and applications (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to information our customers may process when using our Services.
If you are looking for California-specific information, check out our CCPA Privacy Notice, which is incorporated into this Privacy Policy.
We may collect and receive information about users of our Services (“users,” “you,” or “your”) from various sources, including:
- Information you provide through your user account on the Services (your “Account”) if you register for the Services;
- Your use of the Services;
- From third-party websites, services, and partners.
We recommend that you read this Privacy Policy in full, including the Additional Disclosures referenced at the bottom of this document, to ensure you are fully informed. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or Codychataddon’s data collection, use, and disclosure practices, please contact us.
Services Provided by CodyChatAddon
In addition to our standard services, Codychataddon offers the following:
- Software Leasing and SaaS (Software as a Service)
- Sales of add-ons for Cody Chat sites
- VPS LEMP setup services
- Cloudflare usage guides
- SSL acquisition guides
- Server technical support services
- VPS and Dedicated Server Reseller Services
VPS and Dedicated Server Reseller Services
Codychataddon provides VPS and dedicated server reseller services. This involves purchasing VPS or dedicated servers from third-party providers, such as OVH and DigitalOcean, and leasing these servers to our customers. The privacy policies of OVH and DigitalOcean will apply to any information collected and used by these providers.
For more information about the privacy policies of these third-party providers, please refer to:
By using Codychataddon's services, you acknowledge and agree that the privacy policies of these third-party providers will apply to any data they handle.
Third-Party Information
Cody Chat Software Licensing:
Licenses for the Cody Chat software are sold exclusively through BoomCoding’s official store. Codychataddon purchases these licenses from BoomCoding and provides intermediary services related to the Cody Chat software.
Please be aware that the privacy policy on codychataddon.com does not cover the Cody Chat software or BoomCoding’s services. For detailed information on how your data is managed in relation to Cody Chat, please refer to BoomCoding’s privacy policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
Account Registration: When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number. If you choose to refer a friend to our Services, we may also collect your friend’s email address so that we may send them a referral or promotional code to sign up for our Services.
Payment Information: When you add your financial account information to your Account, that information is directed to our third-party payment processor. We do not store your financial account information on our systems; however, we have access to, and may retain, subscriber information through our third-party payment processor.
Personal Data: This means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a user by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
User Content: Our “Community” feature allows you to publicly post content on our Services. By registering for our Community, you agree that your profile information and the content you post may be viewed and used by other users and third parties we do not control.
Communications: If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide. We may also receive a confirmation when you open an email from us.
Information We Collect When You Use Our Services
How We Use Cookies and IP Addresses
codychataddon.com, any associated websites and sub-domains, use small text files called cookies to store information in your web browser. The information stored may include preferences, session identification, HTTP information, and IP address.
You can set your browser to not receive cookies, but this may limit your ability to use codychataddon.com and any associated websites and sub-domains.
IP addresses of computers used to visit codychataddon.com and any associated websites and sub-domains are stored in our database. This includes when first registering for an account, managing your account details, writing a private or public message, or performing any other transaction which results in data being transferred to or from your computer and the website in question.
Your IP address is not visible to the public at any time.
Links to Other Websites
codychataddon.com, any associated websites and sub-domains, may contain links to other websites. These websites may or may not be affiliated with codychataddon.
codychataddon has no control over any external websites; therefore, clicking any link which results in you visiting an external website will result in this privacy policy no longer applying. codychataddon cannot be held responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites.
Usage of our Services: When you use our Services, we may collect information about your engagement with and utilization of our Services, such as processor and memory usage, storage capacity, navigation of our Services, and system-level metrics.
Information We Receive from Third Parties
Third-Party Accounts: If you choose to link our Services to a third-party account, we will receive information about that account, such as your authentication token from the third-party account, to authorize linking.
2. How We Use Information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our Services;
- Improve, personalize, and expand our Services;
- Understand and analyze how you use our Services;
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality;
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the Service, and for marketing and promotional purposes;
- Process your transactions;
- Send you text messages and push notifications;
- Find and prevent fraud; and
- For compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Service, or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.
Additionally, while using the codychataddon.com website, any associated websites and sub-domains, some or all of the following information may be collected:
- Internet Protocol (IP) address
- Geographical location
- Browser type and version
- Operating system
- Referral source
- Length of visit, page views, website navigation, and any other related browsing activity
- Domain / Uniform Resource Locator (URL) where the software will be installed
What We Do With the Information We Collect
The information you provide to codychataddon is required for, but not limited to, the following reasons:
- Internal record keeping
- Access to the codychataddon.com website, associated websites, and sub-domains
- Account management
- Purchase confirmation and account reset
- Confirmation of email address from the software license owner
- Sending notices of product upgrades, security alerts and patches, and other relevant communications
- Validating your domain/URL after purchase of the software to ensure compliance with our licensing agreement
3. How We Share Information
We may share the information we collect in various ways, including the following:
Vendors and Service Providers: We may share information with third-party vendors and service providers that provide services on our behalf, such as helping to provide our Services, for promotional and/or marketing purposes, and to provide you with information relevant to you such as product announcements, software updates, special offers, or other information.
Aggregate Information: Where legally permissible, we may use and share information about users with our partners in aggregated or de-identified form that can’t reasonably be used to identify you.
Advertising: We work with third-party advertising partners to show you ads that we think may interest you.
Third-Party Partners: We also share information about users with third-party partners to receive additional publicly available information about you.
Information We Share When You Sign Up Through a Referral: If you sign up for our Services through a referral from a friend, we may share information with your referrer to let them know that you used their referral to sign up for our Services.
Analytics: We use analytics providers such as Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect non-identifying information.
Business Transfers: Information may be disclosed and otherwise transferred to any potential acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any proposed merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, or in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
As Required By Law and Similar Disclosures: We may also share information to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; (ii) enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service, including investigation of potential violations hereof; (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security, or technical issues; (iv) respond to your requests; or (v) protect our rights, property or safety, our users and the public.
With Your Consent: We may share information with your consent.
4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information
Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal data described above will depend on the personal data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal data from you only where (i) we need the personal data to perform a contract with you; (ii) the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your rights; or (iii) we have your consent to do so.
5. Third-party Services
You may access other third-party offerings through the Services, for example by clicking on links to those third-party offerings from within the Services. codychataddon is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third-party offerings, and we encourage you to carefully review their privacy policies.
6. Security
Codychataddon is committed to protecting your information. We employ a variety of security technologies and measures designed to protect information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no service is completely secure. While we strive to protect your data, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss or a data breach will never occur.
7. Data Retention
We retain personal data we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal data, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible, securely store your personal data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
8. Access
If you are a registered user, you may access certain information associated with your Account by logging into our Services. If you wish to request information related to your Account, please Contact Us.
9. Your Data Protection Rights Under the GDPR
If you are a resident of the EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (“UK”), you have the following data protection rights:
- Access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information please Contact Us.
- Object to the processing of your personal data, ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data, or request portability of your personal data please Contact Us.
- Withdraw your consent at any time please Contact Us.
- Complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal data.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
10. Your Choices
You can use some of the features of the Services without registering, thereby limiting the type of information that we collect.
You may unsubscribe from receiving certain promotional emails from us. If you wish to do so, simply follow the instructions found at the end of the email. Even if you unsubscribe, we may still contact you for informational, transactional, account-related, or similar purposes.
Many browsers have an option for disabling cookies, which may prevent your browser from accepting new cookies or enable selective use of cookies. Please note that, if you choose not to accept cookies, some features and the personalization of our Services may no longer work for you. You will continue to receive advertising material but it will not be tailored to your interests.
11. Children’s Privacy
Codychataddon does not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal Information through our Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through our Services without their permission.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please Contact Us.