Privacy Policy for Collab

Effective Date: May 22, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Collab collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you use our mobile app, website, and related services.

By using Collab, you agree to the collection and use of information described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information you provide directly, information collected automatically, and information from third-party services when you connect them to Collab.

Information You Provide

This may include:

• Name, username, email address, phone number, password, and account credentials.
• Profile details such as photo, bio, skills, interests, location, role, company, links, and preferences.
• Content you create, upload, or share, including messages, posts, listings, project details, comments, images, files, and saved items.
• Communications with Collab support.
• Payment and purchase-related information, such as subscription status, transaction identifiers, and billing details processed by app stores or payment providers.
• Feedback, survey responses, reports, and moderation requests.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use Collab, we may collect:

• Device information, including device type, operating system, app version, browser type, language, and device identifiers.
• Usage information, including pages viewed, features used, taps, searches, interactions, session activity, referring pages, and time spent in the app.
• Log information, including IP address, access times, crash reports, diagnostics, and security events.
• Approximate location based on IP address.
• Precise location only if you allow Collab to access it through your device settings.

Information From Third Parties

We may receive information from:

• Sign-in providers, such as Apple or Google, if you choose to use them.
• Payment processors and app stores.
• Analytics, hosting, security, and customer support providers.
• Other users who invite you, tag you, message you, or interact with your content.

2. How We Use Information

We use information to:

• Provide, operate, maintain, and improve Collab.
• Create and manage accounts.
• Enable profiles, messaging, collaboration tools, search, recommendations, listings, and notifications.
• Personalize your experience and show relevant content.
• Process purchases, subscriptions, and account transactions.
• Respond to support requests and user reports.
• Detect, prevent, and respond to spam, fraud, abuse, security incidents, and policy violations.
• Analyze performance, fix bugs, improve usability, and develop new features.
• Send service updates, security alerts, administrative messages, and product communications.
• Comply with legal obligations and enforce our Terms of Service.

3. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information for money.

We may share information in the following situations:

• With other users, when you create a profile, send messages, post content, join collaborations, respond to listings, or otherwise use social or collaborative features.
• With service providers that help us operate Collab, such as hosting, analytics, security, payment processing, customer support, email delivery, push notifications, and crash reporting.
• With third-party integrations you choose to connect or use.
• For legal reasons, if required by law, court order, subpoena, investigation, or to protect rights, safety, users, or the integrity of Collab.
• During a business transaction, such as a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets.
• With your consent or at your direction.

4. Public and Shared Content

Some parts of Collab may be visible to other users or the public, depending on your settings and how you use the service. This may include your profile, name, photo, bio, posts, listings, comments, project information, availability, or other content you choose to share.

Messages and private collaboration spaces are intended for the people included in them, but recipients may save, copy, screenshot, or share information outside Collab. You should avoid sharing sensitive information unless you trust the recipient.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Collab may use cookies, local storage, mobile identifiers, and similar technologies to keep you signed in, remember preferences, measure performance, understand usage, prevent fraud, and improve the service.

You may be able to limit cookies or tracking through your browser, device settings, or app permissions, but some features may not work properly if disabled.

6. Analytics and Advertising

We may use analytics tools to understand how Collab is used and improve the product. These tools may collect device, usage, and diagnostic information.

If Collab uses advertising or promoted content, we may use limited information to measure performance, prevent fraud, and show more relevant content. We do not use private messages for targeted advertising.

7. Data Retention

We keep personal information for as long as needed to provide Collab, operate our business, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, and maintain security.

If you delete your account, we will delete or de-identify personal information associated with your account within a reasonable period, unless we need to retain certain information for legal, safety, fraud prevention, backup, or legitimate business reasons.

Some content may remain visible if it was shared with other users, included in collaborative spaces, copied by others, or retained in backups for a limited time.

8. Your Choices and Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to:

• Access the personal information we hold about you.
• Correct inaccurate information.
• Delete your personal information.
• Request a copy of your information.
• Object to or restrict certain processing.
• Opt out of certain sharing or targeted advertising where applicable.
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

You can update some information directly in the Collab app. You can also manage device permissions, such as camera, photos, notifications, contacts, and location, through your device settings.

9. California Privacy Notice

If you are a California resident, you may have rights under California privacy law, including the right to know, access, correct, delete, and limit certain uses of personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights.

Collab may collect the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers, such as name, email address, username, phone number, IP address, and device identifiers.
• Account and profile information.
• Internet or electronic network activity, such as app usage, log data, and interactions.
• Approximate or precise location information, depending on permissions.
• Commercial information, such as purchase or subscription history.
• User-generated content, messages, and support communications.
• Inferences, such as preferences or recommended content based on activity.

Collab uses this information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We do not sell personal information for money. If future features involve sharing covered by California privacy law, we will provide required notices and choices.

10. Children’s Privacy

Collab is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

11. Security

We use reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational safeguards to protect personal information. These may include encryption, access controls, monitoring, secure infrastructure, and internal policies.

No method of transmission or storage is completely secure. You are responsible for keeping your account credentials confidential and for using a secure device and network.

12. International Users

Collab may process and store information in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate. Privacy laws in these countries may differ from those where you live.

By using Collab, you understand that your information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your location.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If changes are material, we will provide notice through Collab or another reasonable method. The updated policy will be effective when posted unless stated otherwise.

14. Contact

You can contact Collab about privacy questions or requests through the support or help feature inside the Collab app.