This Privacy Policy explains how Powerhouse Technology, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Powerhouse,” “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses, and protects information when you visit our website, apply for opportunities, participate in our expert network or marketplace, use our services, or otherwise interact with us.
1.Information We Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect:
Information You Provide
This may include:
- Name, email address, phone number, and location;
- Professional information, including employment history, expertise, skills, qualifications, resumes, and professional profiles;
- Business or company information;
- Account and profile information;
- Applications for employment, consulting, expert, or project opportunities;
- Project, task, or assignment information;
- Communications you send to us;
- Payment and transaction information;
- Feedback, reviews, corrections, work product, and other materials submitted through our services; and
- Any other information you choose to provide.
Information Collected Automatically
When you access our website or services, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- IP address;
- Browser and device information;
- Operating system;
- Pages viewed and interactions with our website;
- Referring URLs;
- Approximate location derived from your IP address; and
- Cookies and similar technologies.
2.How We Use Information
We may use information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve our website and services;
- Process applications and evaluate qualifications;
- Contact applicants regarding relevant employment, consulting, project, or professional opportunities;
- Connect businesses, experts, independent professionals, and other participants;
- Match participants with potential projects or assignments;
- Facilitate projects and communications;
- Process payments and maintain transaction records;
- Verify project completion and quality;
- Prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, and violations of our agreements;
- Provide customer support;
- Analyze and improve our products, services, workflows, and business operations;
- Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations; and
- Carry out other purposes disclosed when information is collected.
Where you separately consent, we may contact you through email, telephone, or SMS in accordance with your communication preferences and applicable law.
3.Applicant and Expert Information
When you apply to join Powerhouse or submit information through an applicant or expert opt-in form, we may collect information such as your name, email address, phone number, location, LinkedIn profile, resume, employment history, professional expertise, and other information you provide.
We may use this information to assess your qualifications and contact you regarding current or future opportunities that may be relevant to your experience.
Submitting an application does not guarantee employment, engagement, project placement, or any particular opportunity.
4.AI-Assisted Work and Data
Our services may use artificial intelligence systems to assist with the performance, evaluation, or completion of certain tasks.
Where applicable, information associated with a task may include AI-generated outputs, task instructions, model information, evaluation criteria, expert corrections, revisions, actions, and validated outcomes.
Certain eligible task information may potentially be used to develop evaluation datasets, training datasets, demonstrations, or similar data products.
We will not treat all customer or expert work as automatically eligible for these purposes. Before information is used or provided for AI training, evaluation, or related data-product purposes, we intend to apply appropriate contractual permissions, data-rights requirements, confidentiality restrictions, privacy safeguards, and other applicable requirements.
Where required, sensitive, confidential, personal, or proprietary information will be removed, transformed, de-identified, or otherwise appropriately protected before such use.
Specific projects or agreements may contain additional restrictions governing how project data and work product may be used. Those restrictions will control where they conflict with this Privacy Policy.
5.How We Disclose Information
We may disclose information to:
- Service providers supporting hosting, analytics, communications, security, payments, recruiting, and other business operations;
- Businesses, experts, or independent professionals where necessary to facilitate a project or service;
- Professional advisers, including attorneys, accountants, insurers, and auditors;
- Government authorities or other parties where required by law or reasonably necessary to protect legal rights or safety;
- Parties involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction; and
- Other parties when you authorize or direct us to disclose information.
Where authorized and appropriate, eligible task information may also be provided to AI developers, AI laboratories, research organizations, data customers, or similar organizations for agreed training, evaluation, testing, or research purposes.
6.SMS, Email, and Telephone Communications
Where you provide the applicable consent, Powerhouse may contact you by email, telephone, or text message regarding applications, recruiting, projects, professional opportunities, or other communications you requested.
For SMS communications, message frequency may vary and message and data rates may apply. Consent to receive SMS messages is not a condition of applying for an opportunity or purchasing goods or services.
You may opt out of SMS communications by replying STOP. You may request assistance by replying HELP.
We will honor applicable opt-out requests in accordance with applicable law.
7.Cookies and Analytics
We may use cookies and similar technologies to operate our website, understand usage, maintain security, remember preferences, and improve our services.
Where required by applicable law, we will obtain appropriate consent before using non-essential cookies.
8.Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide our services, evaluate applicants and experts, fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, comply with legal and contractual obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and applicable requirements.
9.Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, loss, or misuse.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
10.Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, applicable law may provide rights regarding your personal information, including rights to:
- Request access to personal information;
- Request correction of inaccurate information;
- Request deletion of certain information;
- Obtain a copy of certain information;
- Object to or restrict certain processing;
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent; and
- Opt out of certain disclosures or uses where required by law.
These rights may be subject to legal exceptions and identity-verification requirements.
Privacy requests may be submitted to info@powerhouse.so.
11.International Users
Our services may involve participants, customers, and service providers located in different countries. Information may therefore be processed or stored outside the country where it was originally collected.
Where required, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers of personal information.
12.Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.
Where a higher minimum age applies under local law, we will comply with that requirement.
13.Third-Party Services
Our website and services may contain links to or integrate with third-party websites, applications, or services. Their handling of information is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
14.Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes to our services, practices, or legal requirements.
The updated version will be posted with a revised effective date.
15.Contact Us
For questions, privacy requests, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, contact:
Powerhouse Technology, Inc. A Delaware Corporation 1467 W San Carlos St. San Jose, CA 95126 Email: info@powerhouse.so