This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal Data to review Founder Applications, communicate with You, and operate and improve the Service. We collect, use, and disclose Your information as described in this Privacy Policy and, where required by applicable law, only where We have a valid legal basis to do so, including Your consent (where consent is required).

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words whose initial letters are capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Privacy Policy) refers to Klaybase LLC.
• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website.
• Founder Application means a request submitted through the Website by or on behalf of a firm to join the Company's founding group.
• Personal Data (or "Personal Information") is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. We use "Personal Data" and "Personal Information" interchangeably unless a law uses a specific term.
• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
• Uasge Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the pages visited).
• User means any individual who accesses or uses the Service.
• Website refers to Klaybase, accessible from klaybase.com
• You or Your means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Information

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

When You submit a Founder Application, sign up for email updates, or contact Us, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. This information may include:

• First name and last name
• Email address
• Firm name, Your role at the firm, firm size, and location
• Firm website, if You choose to provide it
• How You heard about Us, if You choose to provide it
• A description of what You hope Klaybase will help with, if You choose to provide it
• Whether You would like to receive email updates
• Whether You give permission for Your firm's name to be displayed on the Website
• The contents of emails You send Us, including replies to surveys

If You sign up for email updates only, We collect Your email address and nothing else.

Payment Information

If Your firm is approved and chooses to proceed, payment is handled by a third-party payment processor. We do not receive or store Your payment card details. We keep a record of the payment and its status.

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, the pages of Our Service that You visit, the website that referred You, and the time and date of Your visit. We use Usage Data in aggregate to understand how the Website is used, and Our hosting provider processes IP addresses to deliver and protect the Website.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies

The Website does not use Cookies or similar tracking technologies. Our website analytics do not place any files on Your device and do not track You across other websites.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

• To review Your Founder Application: to decide whether Your firm is a fit for the Company's founding group.
• To contact You: to contact You by email about Your Founder Application, including confirming receipt and letting You know the outcome.
• To keep Your Founder Application on file: if We are unable to offer Your firm a place, to contact You if a place becomes available.
• For the performance of a contract: to issue invoices, process payment, and handle refunds for firms that choose to proceed.
• To send You email updates: only if You have opted in, either through the email updates sign-up or by ticking the box on the Founder Application. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link included in every update email or by contacting Us.
• To display Your firm's name: only if Your firm has given Us permission, Your firm's name may be displayed on the Website as a founding member. A firm that does not give permission is not named. Permission may be withdrawn at any time by contacting Us.
• To ask for Your feedback: to send short surveys that help shape what We build.
• To manage Your requests: to attend and manage Your requests to Us.
• For business transfers: We may use Your Personal Data to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us is among the assets transferred.
• For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, and evaluating and improving the Website and Our services.

We do not sell Your Personal Data or share it for advertising.

We may share Your Personal Data in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: We may share Your Personal Data with Service Providers that host the Website and provide website analytics, provide email services, and process payments.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your Personal Data 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.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your Personal Data for any other purpose with Your consent, including displaying Your firm's name on the Website.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (EEA and UK)

If You are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, We process Your Personal Data on the following legal bases:

• Performance of a contract: reviewing Your Founder Application and corresponding with You about it, as steps taken at Your request before entering into a contract, and issuing invoices and processing payment.
• Consent: sending You email updates and displaying Your firm's name on the Website. You may withdraw Your consent at any time. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
• Legitimate interests: keeping a Founder Application on file in case a place becomes available, sending surveys to improve Our services, understanding how the Website is used, keeping the Website secure, and establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.
• Legal obligation: keeping financial records as required by tax and accounting law.

If You are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, You have the right to access, correct, delete, or receive a copy of Your Personal Data, to restrict or object to Our processing of it, and to withdraw Your consent at any time. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with Your local data protection authority. To exercise any of these rights, contact Us using the details below.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data 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

Where possible, We apply shorter retention periods and/or reduce identifiability by deleting, aggregating, or anonymizing data.

We may retain Personal Data for different reasons:

• Legal obligation: We are required by law to retain specific data (e.g., financial records for tax authorities).
• Legal claims: Data is necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
• Your explicit request: You ask Us to retain specific information.

You may request information about how long We will retain Your Personal Data by contacting Us.

When retention periods expire, We securely delete or anonymize Personal Data according to the following procedures:

• Deletion: Personal Data is removed from Our systems and no longer actively processed.
• Anonymization: In some cases, We convert Personal Data into anonymous statistical data that cannot be linked back to You. This anonymized data may be retained indefinitely for research and analytics.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of Your jurisdiction.

Where required by applicable law, We will ensure that international transfers of Your Personal Data are subject to appropriate safeguards and, where relevant, supplementary measures. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.

You may contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any Personal Data that You have provided to Us.

Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when We have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially reasonable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's and Minors' Privacy

The Service is not directed to, and We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from, anyone under the age of 16.

If You are a parent or guardian and You believe Your child has provided Us with Personal Information, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Information from anyone under the age of 16, We will take steps to remove that information from Our servers as soon as reasonably possible.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

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.

Where changes are material, We will also let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service before the change becomes effective.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If You have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact Us:

• By email: privacy@klaybase.com
• By mail: Klaybase LLC, 30 N Gould St, Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States