CoCalc - Third Parties Statements

CoCalc uses a number of third party providers and services. For each of them, we link to further policies, explain the purpose and use case, and which data is shared.

• Google Cloud Platform by Google Inc.
• Google Compute Engine: running the online service (data processing and security terms)
• Google Cloud Storage: saving various files, project archives, and backup
• part of us/eu privacy shield
• Google Analytics by Google Inc.
• usage: basically sets a cookie to help understand usage
• terms of service
• opt-out plugin
• reCAPTCHA
• usage: fraud and abuse protection
• Terms of Usage
• Privacy Policy
• Zendesk
• usage: support tickets
• shared: name, email address, account id
• privacy policy and eu data protection
• us/eu privacy shield
• Stripe, Inc.
• usage: payment processor
• shared: name, email address, subscription data, account id
• privacy policy and privacy shield information
• Credit card information and associated data is only stored by Stripe
• us/eu privacy shield
• Jitsi Video Conferencing
• usage: embedded video conferencing
• shared: no personal data is shared
• privacy policy, the service is run by Atlassian
• us/eu privacy shield
• Gravatar by Automattic
• usage: avatar images
• shared: email address
• NOT used by CoCalc in any way unless user explicitly requests it.
• privacy policy
• us/eu privacy shield
• Google GSuite
• usage: email communication
• GSuite security
• shared: name, email address for emails sent or received by SageMath, Inc.
• Cloudflare
• usage: DDOS protection, i.e. manages data traffic from and to the cocalc.com service
• shared: no structured user data is shared with them
• GDPR info
• us/eu privacy shield
• Backblaze
• usage: additional backup for emergency situations
• Backblaze Privacy Notice and Data Processing Addendum
• Sendgrid (twilio)
• usage: email backend (transactional, e.g. welcome, password resets, ...)
• shared: email address
• Privacy Policy
• GDPR Information
• Amazon AWS
• usage: secondary email backend (transactional, e.g. welcome, password resets, ...)
• shared: email address
• Data Privacy Notice
• GDPR Information
• OpenAI
  • Answer questions about CoCalc functionality on the landing pages.
  • Internal cocalc chat that explicitly mentions @chatgpt.
  • GDPR Information
  • Data Privacy
  • The OpenAI data usage policy says "OpenAI will not use data submitted by customers via our API to train or improve our models, unless you explicitly decide to share your data with us for this purpose." CoCalc does not share the data submitted by customers via the API with OpenAI to train or improve their models. Their retention policy is "Any data sent through the API will be retained for abuse and misuse monitoring purposes for a maximum of 30 days, after which it will be deleted (unless otherwise required by law)."
• Google AI
  • Google Generative AI Terms of Service is relevant when you use the "Gemini" language model in CoCalc.

Questions?

Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions about our Third Parties.

Changes

• March 16, 2023: added openai.
• September 15, 2021: removed appear.in, which we no longer use.