Privacy Policy - FactsLook
Effective Date: April 11, 2025
1. Introduction
Welcome to FactsLook (the "Site"), owned and operated by Lots Tech Services. We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website FactsLook, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the "Site"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. We will alert you about any changes by updating the "Effective Date" of this Privacy Policy. You are encouraged to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed of updates.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
- Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your username, email address, and any other information you voluntarily provide to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as submitting content (articles, listicles), posting comments, liking posts, or saving content. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind; however, your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site.
- User-Generated Content: Any articles, listicles, comments, or other content you submit or post to the Site. This content may include personal information if you choose to include it. Please be aware that any information you post publicly becomes public information.
- Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. (Note: This is standard server logging;).
3. How We Use Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Process and manage your submitted content (articles, listicles). This includes reviewing content for quality and appropriateness. We may use internal tools, potentially including AI assistance under human supervision, to help assess content during the review process before publication.
- Display your username and profile information alongside your approved submitted content.
- Enable user-to-user interactions, such as comments, likes, and saves.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
- Moderate comments and user-submitted content, including removing content that violates our terms or is deemed spam, offensive, or inappropriate.
- Notify you of updates to the Site or changes to our policies.
- Respond to your comments, inquiries, and support requests.
- Maintain the security and integrity of our Site.
- Comply with legal obligations.
4. How We Share Your Information
We value your privacy highly. We do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise share your Personal Data with third parties for their marketing purposes.
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:
- By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers that perform services for us or on our behalf, including data storage (e.g., Supabase), hosting (e.g., Vercel), and website operation. These service providers are obligated to protect your data and may not use it for purposes other than providing services to us.
- User-Generated Content: Content you submit for publication (articles, listicles) will, if approved, be publicly visible on the Site along with your chosen username or profile identifier. Comments you post will also be publicly visible with your username.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
5. User-Generated Content
You are responsible for the content you submit to the Site, including articles, listicles, and comments. By submitting content, you grant FactsLook a license to use, display, reproduce, and distribute your content on the Site. We reserve the right, but not the obligation, to review, screen, and delete user-submitted content or comments at our sole discretion, particularly if it fails to meet our quality standards or violates our terms (e.g., spam, offensive material).
6. Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. We utilize services like Supabase and Vercel, which employ industry-standard security practices. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
7. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, such as maintaining your account and complying with our legal obligations. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. User-generated content may be retained indefinitely unless a removal request is processed or the content is deleted according to our policies.
8. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
- The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Currently, FactsLook does not utilize third-party advertising networks, analytics services (like Google Analytics), or other plugins that would place third-party cookies on your browser. We do not use cookies for tracking purposes beyond essential site functionality (e.g., keeping you logged in if applicable).
If we decide to incorporate third-party services that use cookies or similar tracking technologies in the future (e.g., for analytics or advertising), we will update this Privacy Policy accordingly and provide information on how you can manage your preferences.
10. Children's Privacy
Our Site is not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold if applicable in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under the relevant age without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Effective Date" and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
12. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Lots Tech Services
factslook<at>lotstech<dot>com
Website: lotstech.com