Privacy Policy
Beehiveful.com and the Beehiveful service ("Beehiveful," "we," "us," or "our") are owned and operated by CritFusion, LLC. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we share it, and what choices you have when you use Beehiveful websites, applications, tools, content, and related services.
1. Information We Collect
Information you provide to us
- Account information, such as your name, email address, username, password, and profile details.
- Apiary, hive, inspection, notes, settings, and location information you choose to enter.
- Community posts, replies, mentor profile details, messages, uploads, and other content you submit.
- Support requests, feedback, and communications you send to us.
- Newsletter, notification, or marketing preferences you choose to set.
Information collected automatically
- Log data such as IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, pages viewed, referring pages, and timestamps.
- Usage and diagnostic information about how you interact with Beehiveful features.
- Cookie, session, and similar technology data used to keep you signed in, remember settings, improve security, and understand site usage.
- Approximate or precise location data if you choose to provide a ZIP code or grant browser geolocation access.
Information from third parties
- Analytics providers.
- Authentication, hosting, infrastructure, and email-delivery providers.
- Weather, geolocation, and similar data providers used to generate Beehiveful features.
- AI and model-service providers used to generate advisory, chat, and similar outputs.
2. How We Use Information
We may use information we collect to:
- Provide, operate, maintain, and improve Beehiveful.
- Create and manage user accounts.
- Generate forecasts, advisory content, and AI-assisted responses.
- Personalize content based on location, hive, apiary, and user settings.
- Moderate community content and enforce our Terms of Service.
- Send transactional emails, alerts, account notices, and service messages.
- Respond to support, legal, and technical requests.
- Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, and other harmful activity.
- Comply with legal obligations and protect our rights, users, and services.
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We may use cookies, local storage, session technologies, and similar tools to authenticate users, maintain sessions, store preferences, improve security, measure usage, and support analytics. You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling some cookies may affect site functionality.
4. When We Share Information
We may share information:
- With service providers and vendors that help us operate the platform, such as hosting, infrastructure, analytics, email, support, AI, and data-processing providers.
- With other users when you choose to publish content in community or profile features.
- When required by law, legal process, or governmental request.
- To enforce our agreements, investigate security issues, or protect rights, safety, and property.
- In connection with a merger, financing, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar business transaction.
- With your consent or at your direction.
We do not sell your personal information.
5. AI-Generated Features
Beehiveful may use third-party AI and machine-learning services to generate chat responses, recommendations, forecasts, summaries, or other content. Inputs you submit to AI-powered features may be processed by those providers to produce outputs for your use. AI-generated content can be incomplete, inaccurate, or outdated and should be reviewed by you before relying on it.
6. Data Retention
We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the service, maintain legitimate business records, resolve disputes, comply with legal obligations, and protect the security and integrity of the platform. Retention periods may vary depending on the type of data and why it was collected.
7. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to:
- Access, correct, update, or delete certain personal information.
- Object to or restrict certain processing.
- Withdraw consent where processing depends on consent.
- Request a copy of certain information you provided to us.
- Opt out of marketing communications.
If you want your account or personal data deleted, email us and request deletion. We may need to verify your identity before completing the request, and we may keep limited information where required by law, for security reasons, or to enforce our agreements.
9. Children's Privacy
Beehiveful is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without appropriate authorization where required. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us in violation of applicable law, contact us and we will review the matter.
10. International Users
Beehiveful may be operated from the United States. If you access the service from outside the United States, you understand that your information may be transferred to, processed in, and stored in the United States and other jurisdictions where our providers operate.
11. Third-Party Services and Links
Beehiveful may contain links to or integrations with third-party sites, products, and services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties, and their terms and policies will govern their services.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we may update the effective date, post the revised version on the site, or provide additional notice where appropriate.
13. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or want to make a privacy-related request, including a data deletion request, contact [email protected].
Owner/Operator: CritFusion, LLC