Homestead AI ("Company," "we," "us," "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Homestead AI website, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy covers the Homestead AI company website only. Our products, including ecou, are covered by their own privacy policies, which describe in detail how each product handles your data; see ecou's Privacy Policy for that product.
This policy applies to information we collect on our website, and in email, text, and other electronic communications between you and Homestead AI. It does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from our website.
Please read this policy carefully. By accessing or using our website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website.
Controller Name: Homestead AI LLC
Address: 205 Van Buren Street Suite 120, #1021, Herndon, VA 20170, USA
Email: info@homesteadai.org
Website: https://homesteadai.org/
We collect several types of information from and about visitors to our website:
- Contact information you give us directly, such as your name and email address, for example through a contact form or newsletter signup.
- Information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our website, and usage details.
- Communications between you and Homestead AI, including support requests and inquiries.
- Information you choose to share with us through our social media pages (for example, LinkedIn), including your contact details and the contents of any messages or posts.
We collect this information directly from you, automatically as you navigate the site (including through cookies and similar technologies), and from third parties such as analytics providers. A full breakdown of automatically-collected data and the legal bases we rely on is available in our Data Protection & GDPR policy, and details on the cookies themselves are covered in our Cookies Policy.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, to:
- Provide, operate, and improve our website.
- Respond to your inquiries, comments, and support requests.
- Notify you about changes to our website or company.
- Understand how visitors interact with our website so we can improve it.
- Detect, prevent, and address fraud, security incidents, and abuse.
- Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide the information, with your consent where required.
We may also aggregate or de-identify information so that it no longer identifies you, and use that aggregated or de-identified data to study and improve our website, conduct research, and share or publish general usage statistics (for example, on our blog or social media). We do not attempt to re-identify this information unless required by law.
We do not sell your personal information. We may disclose aggregated information about our visitors, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide:
- To service providers and processors we use to support our website, who are contractually obligated to protect your information.
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce our Terms & Conditions, including for billing and collection purposes.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Homestead AI, our users, or others.
- In connection with a merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business, in which case we will provide notice before your information becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
We retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. How long we retain a given piece of information depends on factors such as our tax, accounting, and audit obligations, and our need to resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. When information is no longer needed for these purposes, we delete or anonymize it; where immediate deletion is not possible (for example, because information remains in secure backup archives), we isolate it from further use until deletion is possible. See our Data Protection & GDPR policy for specific retention periods.
Our website is hosted on Vercel Inc.'s infrastructure. As our hosting provider, Vercel collects your IP address, location information derived from your IP address, and system configuration information when you visit our website, in order to serve, secure, and maintain the site on our behalf. Go here to find more information about how they collect, treat, and use that data and more.
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure, including encryption of data in transit and at rest, access controls, and regular security assessments. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website; any transmission is at your own risk.
You can review and change your personal information by contacting us directly at the email address below. You may also have additional rights depending on where you live, including the right to access, correct, delete, or port your data, and the right to object to or restrict certain processing. If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, these rights, how to exercise them, and your right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority, are described in detail in our Data Protection & GDPR policy.
Most web browsers let you manage cookie preferences directly. See our Cookies Policy for instructions specific to your browser.
Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control. We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. Because there is no sale or sharing for you to opt out of, our website does not need to respond to browser opt-out signals to give you that protection. Out of respect for your preferences, however, when we detect a Do Not Track (DNT) or Global Privacy Control (GPC) signal from your browser, we do not enable any tracking technologies beyond what is strictly needed for basic site functionality.
Homestead AI is based in the United States. If you access our website or services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. By using our website, you consent to this transfer, storage, and processing.
Our website is not directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child, we will take steps to delete that information.
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of those websites, and we encourage you to review the privacy policy of any website you visit.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in response to changing legal, technical, or business developments. When we update this policy, we will post the updated version here and revise the "Updated" date at the top of this page. If we make a material change, we will provide additional notice, such as by email or a prominent notice on our website, before the change takes effect. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@homesteadai.org.