Last updated: September 19, 2023
This Privacy Policy outlines how F.T.S Corporation Ltd. (“FTS Corp”, “EOI”, “we”, “us”) your personal information through our website – fts.group, our mobile applications, our interactions with you through other modes of communication (such as SMS or instant messaging), and any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”).
Conversational artificial intelligence is at the technological frontier. We believe that this emerging technology will fundamentally change the way that we engage with and think about computers in our everyday lives. Ultimately, our goal is to use AI to build safe, smart, kind, and engaging conversational partners.
Our Privacy Policy reflects our belief that achieving this goal and making the technology truly useful for all will require a deep understanding of how our users talk and collaborate with AIs. As users interact with our AIs, we learn a lot about how to make AI better and more useful to you.
Users deserve transparency regarding how that process works, particularly when it comes to their data. This Policy is one part of that transparency. It documents what data we collect, how we keep it secure, and describes how we use that data to improve our Services for everyone. Here are the top level points:
Information you provide to us
Automatic data collection. We and our service providers may automatically log and combine information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Services, online resources and our communications, such as:
We use the following tools for automatic data collection:
Information we obtain from other sources. If you choose to contact or otherwise interact with our Services over a third-party messaging platform such as Facebook Messenger or Instagram, we will collect an identifier of your profile on these platforms.
Sensitive data. In your conversations with the Services, you may choose to provide sensitive information. This includes, but is not limited to, your religious views, sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership. By providing sensitive information, you consent to our use of it for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
We use personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:
Provide our Services. We use personal information to operate, maintain, and provide you with our Services. In particular, we use personal information to perform our contractual obligations under our Terms of Service.
Communicate with you about our Services. It is in our legitimate business interests to use personal information to respond to your requests, provide customer support, and communicate with you about our Services, including by sending announcements, surveys, reminders, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
Improve, monitor, personalize, and protect our Services. It is in our legitimate business interests to improve and keep our Services safe for our users, which includes:
Research and development. We may use personal information for research and development purposes where it is in our legitimate business interests, including to analyze and improve the Services and our business. As part of these activities, we may create or use aggregated, de-identified or other anonymized data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymized data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Services and promote our business.
Compliance and protection. We may use personal information to comply with legal obligations, and to defend us against legal claims or disputes, including to:
We do not sell or share your personal information with third-parties for interest-based advertising purposes . We may disclose your personal information as described below:
Service providers. We may rely on third-party service providers in furtherance of the purposes described above. In these cases, personal information may be accessed by these third-parties and processed or stored on our behalf. These service providers can include hosting services, cloud computing and storage services, maintenance services, security services, and customer support services. We also may share hashes of names and phone numbers and limited device data for advertising attribution and measurement services. This means that the recipient can recognize your name and phone number only if they already have that information from another source.
Business transferees. Personal information may be transferred to another entity in the event of a bankruptcy, change of control, or shutdown of FTS Corp. We may also transfer personal information in the course of a sale or merger of the business.
Authorities and others. If we are legally obliged or otherwise believe it necessary to do so, personal information may be disclosed to regulatory agencies, law enforcement agencies, courts, and other government authorities, including for the compliance and protection purposes described above.
Delete your account. You may request that we delete your account by contacting us as provided in the How to Contact Us section below.
Opt out of SMS messaging. If you wish to opt out of receiving text messages from EOIAI, reply with STOP to any mobile message sent from us. Please note that this may prevent us from sending one-time codes to your phone and may limit your experience. If you would like to allow these codes but disable all other messages, reply with PAUSE to any mobile message sent from us.
Online tracking technologies opt-out. You can opt out of third-party cookies as described in our Cookie Policy.
Personal information requests. We offer you choices that affect how we handle the personal information that we control. Depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our Services, you may request the following in relation to your personal information:Personal information requests. We offer you choices that affect how we handle the personal information that we control. Depending on your location and the nature of your interactions with our Services, you may request the following in relation to your personal information:
To make a request, please email us or write to us as provided in the How to Contact Us section below. We may ask for specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. Depending on where you reside, you may be entitled to empower an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. We will require authorized agents to confirm their identity and authority, in accordance with applicable laws. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination.
Limits on your privacy rights and choices. In some instances, your choices may be limited, such as where fulfilling your request would impair the rights of others, our ability to provide a service you have requested, or our ability to comply with our legal obligations and enforce our legal rights. If you are not satisfied with how we address your request, you may submit a complaint by contacting us as provided in the How to Contact Us section below. Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to complain to a data protection regulator where you live or work, or where you feel a violation has occurred.
Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers can be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Security is integral to the success of conversational AI: people need to trust that their data is being handled responsibly and safely in order to fully get the benefits of our Services.
Ensuring the integrity of your data is a major priority for us. FTS Corp has technical measures in place to protect personal information against unauthorized access, corruption, loss, or misuse. This includes internal measures that limit access to personal information to a dedicated set of specialist employees working on improving the safety or quality of our Services. Where possible and appropriate, we also deidentify sensitive data like conversational logs to preserve user privacy.
However, these measures are not a guarantee of absolute security and you acknowledge and accept that your use of our Services is ultimately at your own risk.
Also, please note that you are responsible for managing access to any accounts that you maintain with FTS Corp. Failure to limit access to your devices or browser might enable third-parties to have unauthorized access to your personal information.
Third-Party Websites and Content
Please be advised that you may encounter links or content through our Services that are provided by third-parties that FTS Corp does own or otherwise control. You acknowledge that any data you provide to these third-parties shall be governed solely by the terms of service, privacy policies, and other terms applicable to those third-parties.
Our Services are not intended for minors under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from minors under the age of 18. If you are a minor under the age of 18, please do not attempt to use our Services, register an account with us, or send any personal information to us.
If you believe that a minor under the age of 18 has provided personal information to us or is otherwise using our Services, please let us know immediately at privacy@fts.group and we will seek to delete this information and revoke access as quickly as possible.
Where required under applicable laws, we retain personal information only for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed, in accordance with our retention policies, and in accordance with applicable laws and regulatory obligations or until you withdraw your consent (where applicable).
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information, the purposes for which we use personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
You will provide personal information directly to our Services in the United States. We may also transfer personal information to our affiliates, partners, and service providers in the United States and other jurisdictions. Please note that such jurisdictions may not provide the same protections as the data protection laws in your home country.
When you visit the careers portion of our websites, we collect the information that you provide to us in connection with your job application. This includes but is not limited to business and personal contact information, professional credentials and skills, educational and work history and other information of the type that may be included in a resume. This may also include diversity information that you voluntarily provide. We use this information on the basis of our legitimate business interests to facilitate our recruitment activities and process employment applications, such as by evaluating a job candidate for an employment activity, to monitor recruitment statistics and to respond to surveys. We may also use this information to provide improved administration of the Services and as otherwise necessary (i) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us, (ii) to protect and defend our or others’ rights or property, (iii) in connection with a legal investigation and (iv) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Service.
We are continuing to iterate on our Services, and this Privacy Policy will need to be updated. Please be aware that we reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time.
When we do so and unless required by law to provide an alternative notice, we will post an updated version on this page. If you choose to continue your use of our Services after such a revision, you consent to be governed by the amended Privacy Policy.
Responsible entity. FTS Corp is the entity responsible for the processing of personal information under this Privacy Policy (as a controller, where provided under applicable law).
Please reach out to the FTS Corp team at privacy@fts.group if you have any questions or concerns pertaining to this Privacy Policy.
EEA and UK representative contact information.For users in the EEA, we have appointed DataRep, at The Cube, Monahan Road, Cork, T12 H1XY, Republic of Ireland, as our EU data representative, and DataRep, at 107-111 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2AB, United Kingdom as our UK data representative. You can contact our representatives at the addresses above or alternatively through the DataRep webform.