Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 14, 2025

SwarmStorm Studio respects your privacy rights and recognizes the importance of protecting your personal information.

1. Introduction and Overview

SwarmStorm Studio respects your privacy rights and recognizes the importance of protecting your personal information (or "personal data"). This Privacy Policy provides a comprehensive description of how SwarmStorm Studio and our subsidiaries and affiliated companies acting on our behalf (collectively, "SwarmStorm Studio," "we," "our," or "us") collect, use, and disclose information about you as well as your rights and choices regarding such information. Our Privacy Policy applies only to personal information collected about you as a customer through SwarmStorm Studio's websites and apps, features, services, events and communications provided by SwarmStorm Studio where this privacy notice is posted ("Services").

By using our Services, you agree to our Terms of Use and to our collection, use and disclosure practices, and other activities as described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of our Services.

If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights and choices, please contact us as set out in the "Contact Us" section.

You may have additional rights based on your jurisdiction:

2. Information Collection

Information You Provide

We collect information about you when you use our Services, including information you provide when you register an account, update your profile, access our content, make a purchase, participate in a promotion, contact support, or apply for a job. The categories of information we collect include:

  • Contact Data, including your first and last name, email address, and non-SwarmStorm Studio account IDs.
  • Demographic Data about you tied to your personal information, such as your age and/or date of birth, country/region of residence, and preferences.
  • Job Applicant Data, including your employment and education history, portfolio, references, and background check information as necessary to consider your job application for open positions.

You may choose to voluntarily provide other information to us that we do not request, and, in such instances, you are solely responsible for such information.

Information Collected Automatically

In addition, we automatically collect information when you use our Services. The categories of information we automatically collect include:

  • Service Use Data, including data about features you use, pages you visit, emails you view, products and services you view, the time of day you browse, and your referring and exiting pages.
  • Device Data, including data about the type of device or browser you use, your device's operating software, your internet service provider, your device's regional and language settings, and device identifiers such as IP address, device ID, and Ad Id (which is a user-resettable identifier associated with your mobile device).
  • Location Data, including non-precise location data (such as location derived from an IP address or data that indicates a city or postal code level).
  • Customer Support Data, including interactions with customer support representatives for purposes of quality assurance.

Tracking Technologies

The types of tracking technologies we use to automatically collect this information include:

  • Cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser that save data about your visit. We use session cookies and persistent cookies for navigation, personalization, and security features.
  • Pixels (web beacons), which is code embedded in a service that sends information about your use to a server.
  • Device Fingerprinting, which is the process of analyzing and combining sets of data elements from your device's browser to create a "fingerprint" of your device.

Information from Other Sources

We also collect information from other sources:

  • Mobile platforms send us information when you purchase our apps.
  • Service providers may collect personal information to provide services on our behalf.
  • Affiliates and Partners that offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities.
  • Publicly-available sources, including information from social networks and in the public domain.

3. Use of Information

We collect and use information in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Our purposes for collecting and using information include:

  • Providing our Services to you, and to improve our Services
  • Preventing and addressing fraud, breach of policies or terms, or threats or harm
  • Understanding trends, usage, and activities to make business and marketing decisions
  • Communicating with you about updates, security alerts, changes to policies, and other transactional messages
  • Personalizing your experience to show you content we believe you will find interesting
  • Engaging in direct marketing, promotional communications, and non-personalized advertising
  • To protect ourselves, the personal safety of users of our Services, or the public
  • To comply with a legal obligation or to exercise our legal rights
  • Fulfilling any purpose at your direction
  • With notice to you and your consent

We may store and process personal information in the United States and other countries or regions that may not have the same types of data protection laws as those in your country.

4. Disclosure of Information

We disclose the information we collect in accordance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy. The categories of persons to whom we disclose information include:

  • Service Providers and Contractors that process information on our behalf
  • Analytics vendors and other parties for analytics related purposes
  • Affiliates and related entities
  • Partners in connection with offering co-branded services or joint marketing activities
  • Promotions sponsors and administrators
  • Public Forums when you make information public through our Services
  • Merger or Acquisition parties in connection with business transactions
  • Security and Compelled Disclosure to comply with law or protect rights and safety
  • Facilitating Requests where you direct us to disclose the information
  • Consent with notice to you and your consent

5. Other Parties

We offer parts of our Services through websites, platforms, and services operated or controlled by other parties. Some examples include:

  • Links to websites, platforms, and other services not operated or controlled by us
  • Brand Pages and Messaging through social media platforms

Please note that when you interact with other parties, those parties may independently collect information about you. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with and consult their privacy policies and terms of use.

6. Analytics

We use analytics services, such as Google Analytics, to help us understand how users access and use our Services. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with and consult their privacy policies and terms of use.

7. Your Rights and Choices

In addition to the rights and choices below, you may have additional rights based on your jurisdiction.

Contact Information

You can contact us at hi@swarmstormstudio.com with requests to delete, access, and update your personal information.

Tracking Technology Management

  • Cookies: You can instruct your browser to decline or delete cookies by changing its settings.
  • Do Not Track: Your browser settings may allow you to transmit a "Do Not Track" signal, though we do not monitor or take action with respect to these signals unless required by applicable law.

Analytics Management

You can prevent tracking of emails by changing your settings to turn off HTML or disable downloading of images. Google provides tools to opt out of Google Analytics at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Communications

  • E-mails: You can unsubscribe from promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email.
  • In-App / On-Device Notifications: You can opt out using the notification settings in your mobile device.

8. Children

Our Services are not directed toward children under 13 years old, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and believe we have collected personal information from children, please contact us at hi@swarmstormstudio.com. We will delete the personal information in accordance with COPPA.

9. Data Security

We implement and maintain reasonable administrative, organizational, physical, and technical security safeguards to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. Nevertheless, transmission via the internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of information about you.

10. International Transfer

We are based in the U.S. and the information we collect is governed by U.S. law. If you are accessing our Services from outside of the U.S., please be aware that information collected through our Services may be transferred to, processed, stored, and used in the U.S. and other jurisdictions. Data protection laws in the U.S. and other jurisdictions may be different from those of your country of residence.

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to revise and reissue this Privacy Policy at any time. Any changes will be effective immediately upon posting of the revised Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our Service indicates your consent to the Privacy Policy then posted. If the changes are material, we may provide you additional notice to your email address.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about our data practices, or experience any difficulty accessing the information in this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: hi@swarmstormstudio.com

13. California

The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), and its replacement the California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"), provide additional rights to California residents. This section addresses those rights and applies only to California residents.

Notice of Collection

We have collected the following categories of personal information in the past 12 months:

  • Identifiers, including name, email address, and online identifiers (such as IP address)
  • Internet activity, including browsing history, search history, and interactions with a website or email
  • Non-precise geolocation data, including location derived from an IP address
  • Professional, employment, or education-related information
  • Inferences drawn from any of the information identified in this section

We do not "sell" or "share" your personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA.

Right to Know, Correct, and Delete

You have the right to know certain details about our data practices and to correct or delete the personal information we have collected from you.

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at hi@swarmstormstudio.com. We will confirm receipt of your request within 10 days.

Right to Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of any of your rights.

14. Nevada

We do not sell and will not sell your covered information (as those terms are defined by NRS 603A.340).

15. European Economic Area, Switzerland, and United Kingdom

The General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") provides additional rights to individuals located in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. This section addresses those rights and applies only to those individuals.

Roles

SwarmStorm Studio acts as a controller with respect to personal data collected as you interact with our Service.

Your Rights

You have the right to access, rectify, or erase any personal data we have collected about you. You also have the right to data portability and the right to restrict or object to our processing of personal data we have collected about you.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us as set out in the "Contact Us" section above and specify which right you are seeking to exercise. We will respond to your request within 30 days.