HistoryWise.io - Data Usage Policy
Last Updated: April 11, 2025
This Data Usage Policy explains how HistoryWise.io ("HistoryWise," "we," "us," or "our"), a Collin & Company, LLC software/service/application, collects, uses, and shares the data you provide and the data we collect in connection with your use of the historywise.io application (the "Service").
1. User-Provided Data
As a user of HistoryWise.io, you will be entering your own business event data ("User Content"). You are solely responsible for the accuracy, legality, and appropriateness of this User Content. You are solely responsible for any considerations or damages that are the result of sensitive or proprietary data, your User Content, being entered into HistoryWise.
2. How We Use User-Provided Data
We will use your User Content for the following purposes:
- Providing the Service: To enable you to create, manage, and organize your business event data and utilize the features of the Service. This includes displaying, processing, and storing your User Content.
- Service Improvement: To analyze usage patterns and trends to improve and optimize the functionality, performance, and user experience of the Service. This analysis will be based on aggregated and anonymized data where possible.
- Communication: To communicate with you regarding your account, updates to the Service, and important notices.
- Creation of Aggregated Reports: To produce aggregated and anonymized reports, insights, and analyses about business trends, usage patterns, or market insights. These reports may be made available to users or third parties on a free or paid basis. These reports will not contain any personally identifiable information or individual User Content.
- Ongoing Partnerships for Service Delivery: To facilitate ongoing partnerships with other businesses that provide data or receive data from our systems, which are necessary to provide the services you expect from HistoryWise.io. This sharing will be limited to what is required for the proper functioning of the Service and to provide you with its intended value.
3. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We will not sell, rent, or distribute your User Content to third parties for their own marketing or advertising purposes.
We may share your User Content with third parties in the following limited circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may engage third-party service providers to perform functions and provide services to us, such as hosting, data storage, analytics, and customer support. These service providers will have access to your User Content only to the extent necessary to perform these services on our behalf and are obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of your data.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or bankruptcy, your information may be transferred to a successor or affiliate. We will notify you of any such transfer and any choices you may have regarding your information.
- Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, legal process, or governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
- Ongoing Partnerships for Service Delivery: As mentioned above, we may share data with our ongoing business partners who provide essential services for the operation of HistoryWise.io. This sharing is strictly for the purpose of delivering the intended functionality of the Service to you.
4. Data Retention
We will retain your User Content for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you with the Service. We may also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
5. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your User Content, such as the right to access, correct, or delete your data. Please contact us at admin@historywise.io if you wish to exercise these rights. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
6. Data Security
We take reasonable measures to protect your User Content from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Data Usage Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any significant changes by posting the updated policy on the Service or by other reasonable means. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised policy.
8. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Data Usage Policy, please contact us at: admin@historywise.io