Note that "collection" does not necessarily imply long-term storage.
### Categories of Sources of Personal Data
We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:
#### You
- When you provide such information directly to us. Examples include:
- When you create an account
- When you voluntarily provide information through our Services or through responses to surveys or questionnaires.
- When you send us an email or otherwise contact us.
- When you sign up to our mailing list.
- When you use our hosted Services and such information is collected automatically. Examples include:
- Cookies (defined in the "Tracking Tools and Opt-Out" section below).
- When you use the client software we provide on your machine. Examples include:
- Authentication information when you sign in.
- Version and system metadata when the software checks for updates.
- Usage data, unless you opt out.
- Crash reports, unless you opt out.
- When you make requests to language models we host for you.
- Zed does not store or train on your requests without consent.
- Other relevant data necessary to provide you with our Services.
#### Third Parties
- When you login to the service using a third-party service like GitHub.
- Information collected by content delivery networks or similar service providers
- We may use analytics providers to analyze how you interact and engage with the Services, or third parties may help us provide you with customer support.
## Our Business Purposes for Collecting or Disclosing Personal Data
- Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services
- Creating and managing your account or other user profiles.
- Processing orders or other fee-based transactions; billing.
- Providing you with the products, services or information you request.
- Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us.
- Providing support and assistance for the Services.
- Improving the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics and product development.
- Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
- Carrying out other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws.
- Marketing the Services
- Marketing and selling the Services.
- Corresponding with You
- Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about Zed or our Services.
- Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences or that display content that we think will interest you.
- Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms
- Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
- Protecting the rights, property or safety of you, Zed or another party.
- Enforcing any agreements with you.
- Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights.
- Resolving disputes.
We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice as is described above.
## How We Disclose Your Personal Data
We disclose your Personal Data to categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Some of these disclosures may constitute a "sale" of your Personal Data as defined under applicable laws. For more information, please refer to the state-specific sections below.
- Service Providers. These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include:
- Hosting, technology and communication providers.
- Providers of artificial intelligence or machine learning models
- Payment processors.
- If you are using our Services on a fee-basis, our payment processing partner Stripe, Inc. ("Stripe") collects your voluntarily-provided payment card information necessary to process your payment.