Privacy Policy
Effective date: April 8, 2026
At Pedestal AI, Inc. ("Pedestal"), we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and disclose your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Remember that your use of Pedestal's Services is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.
As we continually work to improve our Services, we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you of material changes by placing a notice on the Pedestal 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 you haven't provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes.
What this Privacy Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. "Personal Data" means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as "personally identifiable information" or "personal information" or "sensitive personal information" under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don't own or control or people we don't manage.
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:
- Profile or Contact Data — first and last name, email, phone number, and unique identifiers. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Commercial Data — product or service purchase history, and consumer profiles, histories, or tendencies. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Device/IP Data — IP address, device ID, domain server, and type of device/operating system/browser used to access the Services. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Web Analytics — web page interactions, referring webpage/source through which you accessed the Services, non-identifiable request IDs, and statistics associated with the interaction between device or browser and the Services. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Social Network Data — information from social media profiles such as email address or user name. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Consumer Demographic Data — age and/or date of birth. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Professional or Employment-Related Data — resume, job title, job history, performance evaluations, and union membership. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Geolocation Data — IP-address-based location information. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
- Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide — emails, letters, texts, or other communications you send us. Disclosed to: Service Providers, Advertising Partners, Business Partners, Parties You Authorize.
Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data
- Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services — Providing you with the products, services or information you request. Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us. Improving the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics and product development. Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
- Marketing the Services — Marketing and selling the Services. Showing you advertisements, including interest-based, online behavioral or targeted advertising.
- Corresponding with You — Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about the Company or the Services. Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences.
Other Permitted Purposes for Processing Personal Data
Each of the above referenced categories of Personal Data may be collected, used, and disclosed with the government, including law enforcement, or other parties to meet certain legal requirements and enforcing legal terms including: fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process; protecting the rights, property or safety of you, Pedestal or another party; enforcing any agreements with you; responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights; and 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 or obtaining your consent.
Categories of Sources of Personal Data
We collect Personal Data about you from the following categories of sources:
- You — When you provide information directly to us, voluntarily provide information in free-form text boxes through the Services or through responses to surveys, send us an email, or use the Services and such information is collected automatically through Cookies.
- Third Parties — Vendors (analytics providers, lead generation), and Advertising Partners who assist us with marketing or promotional services.
How We Disclose Your Personal Data
We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed below. Depending on state laws that may be applicable to you, some of these disclosures may constitute a "sale" of your Personal Data.
- Service Providers — Hosting, technology and communication providers; security and fraud prevention consultants; support and customer service vendors; analytics providers.
- Advertising Partners — Ad networks, data brokers, marketing providers.
- Business Partners — Businesses that you have a relationship with; companies that we partner with to offer joint promotional offers or opportunities.
- Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate — Third parties you access through the services.
Legal Obligations
We may disclose any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under "Other Permitted Purposes for Processing Personal Data" above.
Business Transfers
All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part).
Data that is Not Personal Data
We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and disclose it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, provided that we will not disclose such data in a manner that could identify you.
Tracking Tools, Advertising, and Opt-Out
The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, "Cookies") to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services.
Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the Services do not support "Do Not Track" requests sent from a browser at this time.
We use the following types of Cookies:
- Essential Cookies — Required for providing you with features or services that you have requested.
- Functional Cookies — Used to record your choices and settings, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to our Services.
- Performance/Analytical Cookies — Allow us to understand how visitors use our Services by collecting information about the number of visitors, what pages visitors view, and how long visitors are viewing pages.
- Retargeting/Advertising Cookies — Collect data about your online activity and identify your interests so that we can provide advertising that we believe is relevant to you.
You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser's settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website.
Data Security
We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. Although we work to protect the security of your data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.
Data Retention
We retain Personal Data about you for as long as necessary to provide you with our Services or to perform our business or commercial purposes for collecting your Personal Data. When establishing a retention period for specific categories of data, we consider who we collected the data from, our need for the Personal Data, why we collected the Personal Data, and the sensitivity of the Personal Data. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law.
Personal Data of Children
As noted in the Terms of Use, we do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from children under 16 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 16, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 16 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 16 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at the email set forth below.
State Law Privacy Rights
California Resident Rights
Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties' direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at the email set forth below.
Nevada Resident Rights
Please note that we do not currently sell your Personal Data as sales are defined in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A.
European Union and United Kingdom Data Subject Rights
If you are a resident of the European Union ("EU"), United Kingdom ("UK"), Lichtenstein, Norway or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR") with respect to your Personal Data. Pedestal will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the Services.
We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity and our "legitimate interests" or the legitimate interest of others.
Your Rights
- Access — You can request more information about the Personal Data we hold about you and request a copy of such Personal Data.
- Rectification — If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data.
- Erasure — You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Data from our systems.
- Withdrawal of Consent — If we are processing your Personal Data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
- Portability — You can ask for a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format.
- Objection — You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your Personal Data for certain purposes.
- Restriction of Processing — You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Data.
- Right to File Complaint — You have the right to lodge a complaint about Pedestal's practices with respect to your Personal Data with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State.
Transfers of Personal Data
The Services are hosted and operated in the United States ("U.S.") through Pedestal and its service providers, and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third party, is being provided to Pedestal in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize Pedestal to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries.
Contact Information
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at: support@pedestal.ai.