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Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 30, 2025

Welcome to Melpapp – Your AI Digital Workspace

Melpapp Inc. or any of its affiliates or associate companies or subsidiaries (hereafter collectively referred as "MelpApp Inc.", "Melpapp", "we", "us", or "our"), prescribes this privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy" / "Policy"), last updated on the date mentioned above, describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information when you visit or use our website (the "Site"), the MelpApp mobile application or desktop application (the "App(s)"), the MelpApp email plugins, the MelpApp chrome extension and any other website or mobile application or plugins that links to this privacy policy in our capacity as a controller of your personal information.

This Privacy Policy explains what information of yours will be collected when you access the services, how such personal information will be used, and how you can control the collection, correction and/or deletion of your personal information. We will not use or share your personal information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy has been prepared and is maintained in accordance with all applicable national and international laws and regulations, in particular, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation - European Regulations).

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, state, province, zip/postal code, city
  • Google account and Microsoft account information
  • Usage data

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, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

  • Directly from you. For example, from the forms you complete on our service, preferences you express or provide through our service.
  • Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your activity on our service.
  • Automatically from you. For example, through cookies we or our service providers set on your device.
  • From service providers. For example, third-party vendors to monitor and analyze the use of our service.
  • Registration and login with Google or Microsoft. By registering on the platform through your Google or Microsoft account, you authorize MelpApp to collect, process and store your account information.
  • Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to collect and analyze certain types of information. Refer to Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and store certain information. The technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of our service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit the company to count users who have visited those pages.

Types of Cookies We Use

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Session cookies administered by us. Essential to provide you with services available through the website.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Persistent cookies to identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website.

Functionality Cookies

Persistent cookies that remember choices you make when you use the website.

Tracking and Performance Cookies

Persistent cookies administered by third-parties to track information about traffic and usage.

Use of Your Personal Data

The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service, including to monitor the usage of our service.
  • To manage your account: to manage your registration as a user of the service.
  • For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for products or services.
  • To contact you: by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication.
  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods and services.
  • To manage your requests: to attend and manage your requests to us.
  • For business transfers: to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, or other sale or transfer of assets.
  • For data protection: to protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized or illegal activity.

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • With service providers: to monitor and analyze the use of our service, for payment processing.
  • For business transfers: in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition.
  • With affiliates: we may share your information with our affiliates.
  • With business partners: to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
  • For legal reasons: to comply with applicable law or respond to legal process.
  • With your consent: we may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

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, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Usage data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Once the retention period expires, the personal data will be deleted. Therefore, the right of access, the right of erasure, the right of rectification and the right to data portability cannot be asserted once the retention period has expired.

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 information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ.

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.

Storage and Transfer of Personal Information

Your personal information and files including their backups are stored on MelpApp's servers and the servers of companies we hire to provide services to us.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and when your personal information is processed outside EEA, we will ensure that the recipient offers an adequate level of protection, for instance by entering into standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal information as approved by the European Commission.

Marketing Opt-Outs

MelpApp will not send you any unsolicited marketing or promotional email without your permission. You may opt-out of receiving such marketing emails by following the instructions in those messages.

For interest-based advertising opt-outs, you may use:

Sharing of Information

We may share your personal information externally with third-party service providers, including but not limited to companies providing payment processing, network equipment management, hosting services, and other services discussed in this policy.

We currently use Stripe, Inc. to manage our payments. Your credit card information will be subject to our payment processor's privacy policy in addition to ours.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personal information except in accordance with this policy.

Privacy of Children

We recognize the importance of children's safety and privacy. We do not request, or knowingly collect, any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16 except for academic purposes. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that their child has provided us with personal information, please contact us at support@melp.us.

Security

Your personal information is extremely important to us. Your information resides on a secure server that only selected personnel have access to. Promotional and referral codes are random alphanumeric sequences that are encrypted.

Although we try our best to protect your information, we cannot eliminate security risks associated with personal information. It is important that you do not share your password with anyone.

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.

We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:

MelpApp Inc.

400 Alexander Park, Suite 103

Princeton, NJ 08540

Email: support@melp.us