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title: Privacy Policy
slug: privacy-policy
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At Zed Industries, Inc. ("Zed", "Company" or "we"), we take privacy and the security of data seriously. This Privacy Policy is established to help advise you about how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our website located at zed.dev, or the Solution or services available pursuant the Zed End User Terms located at [https://zed.dev/terms](https://zed.dev/terms) (collectively, the "Services"), you acknowledge awareness of the practices and policies outlined below, and hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy.

As we grow and expand our Services, we may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When material modifications are made, we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on the Company website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you've opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or haven't provided us with a valid email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been published on our website, you consent and agree to all of the changes.

## What this Privacy Policy Covers

Our Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. "Personal Data" means information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and includes information referred to as "personally identifiable information" or "personal information" under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don't own or control or people we don't manage.

## Personal Data

### Categories of Personal Data We Collect

This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months:

| Category of personal data     | Examples of data we collect                                   | Categories of third parties with whom we share this data |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- |
| Profile or contact data       | First and last name<br/>Email address<br/>GitHub username     | Cloud infrastructure providers <br/>Analytics providers  |
| IP data                       | IP address & derived geolocation data                         | Cloud infrastructure providers <br/>Analytics providers  |
| Web analytics                 | Interactions<br/>Referrer<br/>Request IDs<br/>Statistics      | Cloud infrastructure providers <br/>Analytics providers  |
| Photos, videos and recordings | Screenshots<br/>Videos and video recordings you share with us | Cloud infrastructure providers                           |
| Audio, screenshare data       | Audio and screen sharing during collaboration calls           | Cloud infrastructure providers                           |

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.