Last Update: March 7, 2022
Cohere Inc. (“Cohere”) values and respects your privacy. We have prepared this privacy policy to explain the manner in which we collect, use and disclose personal information through our Website located at cohere.ai (“Website”) and through our AI-powered services, including our language model platform (“Services”).
We collect the following types of information in order to provide the Services to our customers use of the Services:
Our Services are not intended to process personal information and we recommend that our clients not upload any personal information when using our Services. Any personal information that is provided to us will be collected, used and disclosed as set out above and in accordance with the terms governing the use of our Services. Our customers are responsible for complying with applicable privacy laws when collecting, using, or disclosing personal information through the Services, including by providing any necessary notices and obtaining any necessary consent to provide the information to Cohere and to collect, use, and disclose personal information through the tools. Information we collect or generate is retained in accordance with our contractual commitments to our clients.
If you have any questions regarding the personal information we process on behalf of one of our customers, we encourage you to first contact the customer directly and/or review their applicable privacy policy.
If you signed-up to receive marketing communications from one of our customers and now wish to unsubscribe, please contact the customer directly.
We may collect information about you when you:
Requesting Access to the Services: Before accessing or using the Services, you may be asked to complete the Cohere API Application. As part of this Application, we will collect your business contact information, information about your organization (including the type of organization and the jurisdiction in which it is located), and information about your intended use of the Services (including a description of your use case, your previous experiences using similar services, and estimates of the frequency with which you will use the Services). We use this information to understand the purposes for which you are seeking to use the Services, to assess whether the Services are right for your organization and the intended purposes, and to customize your user experience.
Creating an Account: If your Application is approved, you will be required to create an account in order to access and use the Services. To create your account, we collect your first and last name, email address and a password that you create. We use this information to create and administer your account and facilitate your access to and use of the Services. We strongly recommend that you do not disclose your password to anyone. We will never ask you for your password in any unsolicited communication (such as letters, phone calls or email messages). If you become aware of any unauthorized access to or use of your account, you are required to notify us immediately.
Marketing Communications: We may send you communications (including by mail and email) regarding our platform and other products and services that we believe are of interest to you. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included at the bottom of each email or by contacting us at the contact information provided in the “Contact Us” section below. Please note that you may continue to receive transactional or account-related communications from us after you unsubscribe.
Surveys: From time to time, we may offer you the opportunity to participate in one of our surveys. The information obtained through our surveys is used in an aggregated, de-identified form. We use this information to help us understand our users and to enhance our Website.
Employment: If you apply for a job with us, we may collect certain personal information about you (such as information that would be contained in a resume, cover letter, or other employment-related materials). We use this information for the purpose of processing, evaluating and responding to your application.
Contact Us: When you contact us with a comment, question or complaint, you may be asked for information that identifies you, such as your name, address and a telephone number, along with additional information we need to help us promptly answer your question or respond to your comment. We may retain this information to assist you in the future and to improve our customer service and service offerings.
We do not sell or disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent, except as set forth below or as required or permitted by law.
Service Providers: Your personal information will be transferred (or otherwise made available) to certain third parties that provide services on our behalf. We use service providers to provide services such as cloud computing, data storage, publishing, and analytics. Our service providers are only provided with the information they need to perform their designated functions and are not authorized to use or disclose personal information for their own marketing or other purposes. Our service providers may be located in the U.S., Canada or other foreign jurisdictions.
Legal and Compliance: We and our Canadian, US and other foreign service providers may provide your personal information in response to a search warrant to other legally valid inquiry or order, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law or detecting, suppressing or preventing fraud, or as otherwise may be required or permitted by applicable Canadian, U.S. or other law or legal process, which may include lawful access by US or foreign courts, law enforcement or other government authorities. Your personal information may also be disclosed where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and to investigate or prevent actual or suspected loss or harm to persons or property.
Sale of Business: We may transfer any information we have about you as an asset in connection with a proposed or completed merger, acquisition or sale (including transfers made as part of insolvency or bankruptcy proceedings) involving all or part of Cohere.ai or as part of a corporate reorganization or other change in corporate control.
Visiting our Website: In general, you can visit our Website without telling us who you are or submitting any personal information. However, we collect the IP (Internet protocol) addresses of all visitors to our Website and other related information such as page requests, browser type, operating system and average time spent on our Website. We use this information to help us understand our Website activity and to monitor and improve our Website.
Cookies: Our Website uses cookies, pixel tags (also called web beacons) and other tracking technologies (which we collectively refer to as "cookies"). A cookie is a tiny element of data that our Website sends to a user’s browser, which may then be stored on the user’s hard drive so that we can recognize the user’s computer or device when they return. You may set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie or to not accept certain cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from our Website, you may not be able to take advantage of all of the Website features. We also use third parties tools that use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your device and your behaviour on our Website in order to show us how you interact with our Website. The information collected includes information on what you see during your visit and actions you take when navigating our Website (e.g. clicks, mouse movements, hovers, page visits, scrolling, typing, form fills) as well as your device’s IP address, device screen size, device type, browser information, session duration, city and country, and preferred language. We use this information to optimize the user experience on our website, measure your engagement and help us identify errors on our Website.
Analytics: We may use a third party such as Google Analytics to help us gather and analyze information about the areas visited on the Website (such as the pages most read, time spent, search terms and other engagement data) in order to evaluate, derive insights from and improve the user experience and the Website (including the organization from which you access the website). These third parties may use cookies and other tracking technologies. For more information about Google Analytics or to prevent the storage and processing of this data (including your IP address) by Google, you can download and install the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en . You can also obtain additional information on Google Analytics’ data privacy and security at the following links:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
and https://support.google.com/analytics/topic/2919631
Third Party Links: Our Website may contain links to other websites that Cohere does not own or operate. We provide links to third party websites as a convenience to the user. These links are not intended as an endorsement of or referral to the linked websites. The linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies, notices and terms of use. We do not have any control over such websites, and therefore we have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that operate such linked websites may collect, use or disclose, secure and otherwise treat personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
We have implemented reasonable administrative, technical and physical measures in an effort to safeguard the personal information in our custody and control against theft, loss and unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure. We restrict access to personal information on a need-to-know basis to employees and authorized service providers who require access to fulfil their job requirements.
If we receive a request from an individual to access or update personal information we maintain on behalf of a customer, we will direct that individual to the relevant customer. We will assist our customers wherever possible in responding to individual access requests.
Subject to applicable law, you have the right to access, update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our control. You may request access, updating and corrections of inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody or control by emailing or writing to us at the contact information set out below. We may request certain personal information for the purpose of verifying the identity of the individual seeking access to his or her personal information records.
We may update this privacy policy periodically to reflect changes to our privacy practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page to ensure you are familiar with those changes. We will indicate at the top of this privacy policy when it was most recently updated.
If you have any questions or comments about this privacy policy or the manner in which we or our service providers treat your personal information, or to request access to our collection of your personal information, please contact us at:
Privacy Officer