Last updated: August 26, 2026
Spherical Luminosity LLC (the "Company", "we", "our", or "us") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing products and services to you through our websites, applications, platform, products, and/or services (collectively, the "Platform") and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies only to information we collect:
- Through the Platform.
- In communications, including email, text, chat, through the Platform, and other electronic messages, between you and the Company.
This policy does not apply to information collected by any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Platform.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Platform or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see "Changes to Our Privacy Policy" below). Your continued use of the Platform after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children's and Minors' Data
Our Platform is not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.
The Personal Data That We Collect or Process
The types and categories of personal data we may collect or process include:
- Account and contact information, including name, address, email address, phone number, username, and other contact information you provide us when creating an account in our Platform.
- Demographic information, including your age and gender.
- Location information, including general geographic location such as country, state or province, or city.
- Other information relevant to your use of the Platform or that you otherwise provide to us while using the Platform.
- Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.
We may also collect:
Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Platform feature.
Technical information. Technical information includes information about your interactions with the Platform, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Platform (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.
How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data
You Provide Information to Us
We collect information about you when you interact with our Platform, including information you input or provide to us through our website or by email or phone.
Automatically Through Our Platform
As you navigate through and interact with our Platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Platform, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Platform features that you access and use.
Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.
These technologies include cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, and similar tools, which we group into categories such as strictly necessary, functional, analytics, and marketing/advertising. For a full description of these categories, the specific tools and third parties involved, and how to manage your preferences, please see our Cookie Policy at https://www.sphericalluminosity.com/cookie-policy/.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:
- Provide you with the Platform and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Platform.
- Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- Provide you with notices about your account.
- Improve our Platform, and to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Platform and its features and how users interact with the Platform.
- We may use tools that incorporate machine learning and large language models to help us operate and improve our services. We prefer providers that do not use our data to train their own systems, and where possible, we configure our accounts to reflect that preference. We cannot guarantee this for every third-party tool we use, however, and a provider's own practices could still result in data being used to develop or improve its systems.
- Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- Notify you when Platform updates are available and about changes to any products or services we offer or provide through them.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Platform and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.
- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Platform according to your individual needs and interests.
- Speed up your searches.
- Recognize you when you return to our Platform.
We may also use your information to contact you about our goods and services that may be of interest to you, with other promotions, or with other general information about our Platform such as newsletters or blogs. If you do not wish to receive these communications, please email us at [email protected].
Who We Disclose Your Information To
We may disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and Platform and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by the Company is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal data:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our Terms of Service at https://www.sphericalluminosity.com/terms-of-service/.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our users, or others.
For details on the specific third-party tools and services that receive information through cookies and similar technologies on our Platform, please see our Cookie Policy at https://www.sphericalluminosity.com/cookie-policy/.
Your Rights and Choices About Your Information
This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.
Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Platform features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. Our Platform does not respond to DNT signals.
You can also set your cookie preferences by interacting with our cookie banner when you first visit our website. You can change your preferences any time by clicking the "Consent Preferences" link on the lower lefthand corner of our website.
Location data choices:
Location Data. You can choose whether or not to allow the Platform to collect and use real-time information about your device's location through your device's privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some Platform features may become inaccessible or not function properly.
How We Protect Your Personal Data
We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Platform. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Platform may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.
How We Retain Your Personal Data
We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described herein or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Platform, maintaining your account, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on our website, mobile application, or any other location where we make our Platform available. We may email or otherwise communicate reminders about this policy, but you should check our Platform periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.
Contact Information
To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at [email protected].