Privacy Policy

Introduction

Rise Tech Inc., doing business as Rise Data Labs (“Rise Data Labs,” “RDL,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), builds AI evaluation benchmarks, datasets, and data pipelines for our clients. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use and share it, and the choices you have.

It applies to everyone who interacts with us: visitors to our website; experts and contributors who apply, interview, and complete work through our platform; and client and enterprise contacts. By using our website or services, you acknowledge the practices described here. If you don’t agree with them, please don’t use our website or services.

When we build datasets, benchmarks, or evaluations for a client, we sometimes process personal information on that client’s behalf. In that role, the client decides how the information is used, the processing is governed by our agreement with them, and it is not covered by this Policy. If you believe a client is processing your information through our services, please contact that client directly.

Information We Collect

2.1  Information you provide

• Name, email address, phone number, and other contact details
• Professional profile: résumé, work history, skills, qualifications, and portfolio, code, or work samples
• Linked or public professional and developer profiles (for example, LinkedIn or GitHub)
• Account credentials and authentication information
• Interview recordings, transcripts, and responses captured during voice or video interviews
• Work product and task submissions you create while completing projects for us or our clients
• Rate expectations, availability, and engagement preferences
• Information you include when you contact support or otherwise communicate with us

2.2  Information we collect automatically

• Device and connection data (IP address, browser type, operating system)
• Usage data (pages visited, features used, time spent, interactions)
• Approximate location, where permitted or where you grant permission
• Cookies and similar technologies (see Section 6)
• Activity during active work sessions on our projects, such as screenshots, application and input activity, and time spent on tasks

Where session monitoring applies to a project, we tell you at project onboarding, and we limit it to your activity during active work sessions.

2.3  Information from third parties

• Professional and developer profiles you connect or make public (for example, LinkedIn or GitHub)
• Identity, background, or eligibility checks, where applicable and with your consent
• Publicly available sources and databases

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website, platform, and services
• Evaluate applications and match experts to suitable projects
• Assess and score interviews and skills assessments, including with the help of AI systems and trusted third-party tools
• Produce, quality-check, and deliver datasets and evaluations to our clients
• Improve our platform, benchmarks, and models, including through research and development
• Communicate with you about your account, projects, and support
• Send authentication and security messages (including SMS) where you have enabled them
• Protect our services, prevent fraud and abuse, and keep accounts secure
• Verify task completion, maintain quality and platform integrity, and detect fraud, including through monitoring of active work sessions where we have told you it applies
• Comply with our legal and regulatory obligations

Legal Bases for Processing (GDPR / UK GDPR)

Where the GDPR or UK GDPR applies, we rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

• Consent: where you have given us permission for a specific purpose
• Contract: to take steps you request and to perform our agreement with you
• Legitimate interests: to run, secure, and improve our services, where not overridden by your rights
• Legal obligation: to comply with applicable law

Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

How We Share Information

We share information only as needed. We may share it:

• With our clients: deliverables, evaluations, and, where relevant to an engagement, elements of your professional profile
• With service providers: hosting, storage, analytics, AI evaluation, communications, identity or background checks, and payment processing, under contracts that limit their use of the data
• For legal reasons: to comply with law, respond to lawful requests, or protect the rights, safety, and security of RDL, our users, and others
• In a business transfer: in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of assets, subject to this Policy

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies to run the site and understand how it is used. These include session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain until they expire or you remove them:

• Essential: required for core functionality and security
• Analytics: to understand usage and improve the experience
• Marketing: to measure and, where applicable, personalize our communications

You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Disabling some cookies may affect how the site works.

Analytics and Advertising

We use analytics tools to understand how our website is used and to improve it. We may also measure the effectiveness of our marketing, which can involve sharing hashed identifiers, such as a hashed email address, with advertising platforms such as LinkedIn and Meta through server-side connections for conversion attribution. We do not share this data so third parties can target you with their own advertising. You can manage these choices as described in the Your Rights and Choices and California sections below.

Marketing Communications

If you have opted in, we may send you marketing emails or text messages about RDL. You can opt out at any time: use the unsubscribe link in our emails, reply STOP to a marketing text message, or email us at privacy@risedatalabs.com. Even if you opt out, we may still send you service and transactional messages, such as account, security, or policy updates. We do not share your mobile information with third parties for their own marketing, and text-messaging consent is not shared with third parties.

Your Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights over your personal data:

• Access a copy of the personal data we hold about you
• Correct inaccurate or incomplete data
• Delete your data, subject to legal limits
• Object to or restrict certain processing
• Withdraw consent for consent-based processing
• Non-discrimination for exercising your rights

These rights may apply if you are in the EU or UK, or a resident of a US state with a comprehensive privacy law, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Depending on your state, you may also opt out of the sale of your personal information or its use for targeted advertising, and you may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. If we deny your request, you may have the right to appeal by contacting us using the details below.

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@risedatalabs.com. We may need to verify your identity first, and we will respond within the time required by applicable law.

If you are in the EEA or UK and believe we have not resolved your concern, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

Additional Information for California Residents

If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) gives you additional rights and requires us to explain how we handle your personal information.

Under the CCPA, “selling” means disclosing personal information to a third party for money or other valuable consideration, and “sharing” means disclosing it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Our use of analytics and advertising tools, described in Section 7, may be considered a “sale” or “sharing” under the CCPA, because it can involve disclosing online identifiers to our partners.

You can opt out of any “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information by emailing us at privacy@risedatalabs.com with the subject line “CCPA Opt Out.” If you have a browser-based opt-out preference signal turned on, such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC), we honor it as an opt-out of sharing where required by law.

California’s “Shine the Light” law lets California residents ask about personal information we disclose to third parties for their own direct marketing. We do not currently disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing.

Do Not Track (DNT): our website does not currently respond to browser DNT signals. This is separate from the GPC signal described above, which we do honor.

You also have the rights described in Section 9, and you may exercise them by contacting us.

Data Security

We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, and destruction. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so while we work hard to protect your data, we cannot guarantee absolute security. If you believe your account or your interaction with us is no longer secure, email us at security@risedatalabs.com.

Data Retention

We keep personal data only as long as needed to provide our services, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, and support our legitimate business operations. When it is no longer needed, we delete or anonymize it. Some records may be kept longer where the law requires.

International Data Transfers

RDL is based in the United States, and we process data both inside and outside the United States. Some countries have data protection laws that differ from those where you live. Where required by applicable law, we rely on recognized transfer mechanisms, which may include the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework.

Third-Party Links

Our website may link to third-party sites and services that we do not operate or control. We are not responsible for their content, security, or privacy practices. Review their policies before sharing information with them.

Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are intended for adults and are not directed to anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under 18. If you believe someone under 18 has provided us information, contact us and we will take steps to delete it.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the “Last updated” date above and, for material changes, provide additional notice through our website or by email where required. Please review it periodically.

Contact Us

Questions, concerns, or requests about this Policy or our data practices:

Email

privacy@risedatalabs.com

Security

security@risedatalabs.com

Data Protection Officer

dpo@risedatalabs.com

Entity

Rise Tech Inc.

Address

651 N Broad St, Suite 206, Middletown, DE 19709

If you are in the EEA or UK and believe we have not resolved your concern, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.