Privacy Policy

We at Akem, Inc. ("Akem" or "We") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. For the purposes of applicable data protection law, Akem is the "controller" of your personal data. For our contact details, see Contact Information.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website akem.com (our "Website"), use our products and services (including but not limited to earnings reports, financial analytics, AI agent integrations, and API access, collectively our "Services"), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• ·On this Website.
• ·Through our Services, including AI agent integrations, API access, and product subscriptions.
• ·In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website or our Services.
• ·When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• ·Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Akem or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), where a separate privacy policy may be provided to you in relation to such information; or
• ·Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or Services. By accessing or using this Website or our Services, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website or our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Our Website and Services are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website or through our Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features or Services, register on the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at privacy@akem.com.

Residents of certain states under 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and Services, including information:

• ·By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, IP address, telephone number, payment information, any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information");
• ·That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as age, gender, or language preference (which will only be treated as personal information where it is associated with other information from which you are identifiable);
• ·About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details (which will only be treated as personal information where it is associated with other information from which you are identifiable); and
• ·About your use of our Services, including queries submitted to AI agents, reports accessed, API calls made, and usage patterns.

We collect this information:

• ·Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• ·Automatically as you navigate through the site or use our Services. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies (with your consent, where required under applicable law).
• ·From third parties, for example, our business partners and payment processors.

The information we collect on or through our Website and Services may include:

• ·Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our Services, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website or Services.
• ·Transaction and billing information when you subscribe to or purchase our Services.
• ·Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• ·Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• ·Your search queries on the Website and queries submitted through our Services, including AI agent interactions.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons (including any personal information included in those User Contributions).

As you navigate through and interact with our Website and Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• ·Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• ·Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
• ·Details of your use of our Services, including API call frequency, query types, report access patterns, and agent interaction data.

We will ask for your consent for the use of such technologies, where this is required under applicable law (e.g., via a cookie banner when you first visit our Website).

Where you consent, we also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Website and Services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• ·Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• ·Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website and Services according to your individual interests.
• ·Speed up your searches.
• ·Recognize you when you return to our Website.
• ·Improve and optimize the performance of our AI agents and analytics tools.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• ·Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or rejecting our request for your consent. However, if you refuse you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• ·Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie non-personal information collected automatically to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or that you provide to us (in which case, we will treat such previously non-personal information as personal information).

Our Services include AI-powered agents and automated analysis tools. When you use these Services:

• ·Your queries and inputs may be processed by our AI systems to generate outputs, reports, and analytics.
• ·We may retain query data and interaction logs to improve Service quality and performance, subject to our data retention policies.
• ·We do not use your personal queries or proprietary data to train AI models available to other users without your explicit consent.
• ·AI-generated outputs are provided for informational purposes only and should not be relied upon as professional financial, investment, legal, or tax advice.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website (with your consent, where required by applicable law). The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control how these third parties may use any information obtained from such tracking technologies. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• ·To present our Website and its contents to you.
• ·To provide you with our Services, including earnings reports, financial analytics, AI agent integrations, and API access.
• ·To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• ·To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• ·To provide you with notices about your account and subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
• ·To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• ·To notify you about changes to our Website, Services, or any products or services we offer or provide through them.
• ·To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• ·To improve and develop our Services, including AI model performance and analytics accuracy.
• ·In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• ·For any other purpose with your consent.

Unless stated otherwise above, where applicable law requires a lawful basis for our processing of your personal information, the lawful basis relied upon is that it is necessary for our legitimate business interests where such interests are not outweighed by your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms.

You are not obliged to provide us with any personal information, but if you do not provide us with personal information, we may be unable to provide you with our Services. We do not process personal information using solely automated means in order to make a decision about you that would have a significant effect.

We will keep your personal information, in a form which permits us to identify you, for no longer than is necessary for the purpose for which the personal information is processed. Specifically:

• ·Account information: Retained for the duration of your account and for 90 days following account deletion.
• ·Transaction and billing records: Retained for 7 years as required by applicable tax and accounting laws.
• ·Service usage data and query logs: Retained for 24 months from the date of collection, unless earlier deletion is requested.
• ·Marketing communications: Until you opt out.

We may retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements and rights, or if it is not technically reasonably feasible to remove it. You may request that we delete your personal information earlier — see Your State Privacy Rights and Your European Privacy Rights.

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and anonymous information (that does not identify any individual), without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• ·To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• ·To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business (including payment processors, cloud hosting providers, and AI infrastructure providers). We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information 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 Akem's assets.
• ·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 information:

• ·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 Use, Product Terms of Service, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• ·If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Akem, our customers, or others.

Our Website is maintained on servers located in the United States, and personal information submitted is stored on our servers in the United States. If you are visiting our Website from outside the United States, please be advised that your information is transferred to our U.S. servers.

Where required under applicable law, we will ensure that we have a legal basis for any data transfers we undertake, and ensure a relevant safeguard method is in place (e.g., standard contractual clauses, including necessary assessments and supplementary measures) or a derogation applies, so that your personal information is treated in a manner that is consistent with, and respects applicable law. If you require further information about international data transfers, please contact us via the details contained under Contact Information below.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

• ·Tracking Technologies and Advertising. Where required by applicable law, we ask for your consent before placing non-essential cookies. You can also set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• ·Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt out by adjusting your preferences in your account settings or by sending us an email with your request to privacy@akem.com.

Residents of certain jurisdictions may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights and Your European Privacy Rights for more information.

California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

• ·Confirm whether we process their personal information.
• ·Access and delete certain personal information.
• ·Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information's nature and processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• ·Data portability.
• ·Opt-out of personal data processing for: targeted advertising (excluding Iowa); sales; or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).
• ·Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact us at privacy@akem.com.

The European Economic Area ("EEA"), United Kingdom ("UK") and Switzerland provide individuals located within these jurisdictions with rights to:

• ·Request access to any personal information we hold about you as well as related information (which is contained in this policy);
• ·Obtain without undue delay the rectification of any inaccurate personal information we hold about you;
• ·Request that personal information held about you is deleted;
• ·Prevent or restrict processing of your personal information; and
• ·Request transfer of personal information directly to a third party where this is technically feasible.

If you have any complaints regarding our handling of your personal information or our compliance with this policy or applicable law, you may submit complaints via the details contained under Contact Information below. We will acknowledge receipt of your complaint within thirty days and investigate and respond without undue delay.

Where you believe that we have not complied with our obligation under this policy or applicable law, you have the right to complain to a data protection authority, such as the UK Information Commissioner's Office. However, please note that such supervisory authority may expect you to have submitted your complaint to us in the first instance.

We have implemented appropriate organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect personal information within our organization, including security controls to prevent unauthorized access to our systems. These measures include encryption of data in transit and at rest, regular security assessments, and access controls limiting personnel access to personal information on a need-to-know basis.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website or Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

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 of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Akem, Inc. privacy@akem.com