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Introduction

Bolt is a cross-platform chatbot operated by William Horning and Isaac McFadyen. This document, containing the Privacy Policy and Terms of Service for Bolt, is a legal agreement between you, William Horning, and Isaac McFadyen.

Definitions

We / Us / Our - William Horning and Isaac McFadyen
You - the user of Bolt
Bolt - Hosted version of lightning provided by us
Third-party Chat Platforms - Discord, Guilded, Revolt, and Telegram

Terms of Service

Service Provider

Bolt operates under the laws of the following jurisdictions and is solely provided by us:

The laws of Toronto supersede the laws of any other jurisdiction for the operation of Bolt.

Age Requirements

You must be at least 13 years old, or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, to use Bolt. If you are under 13, you are not permitted to use Bolt.

Warranty & Liability Disclaimer

While we may provide support and try to fix bugs and keep Bolt operating, we do not offer warranties with Bolt.

TO THE EXTENT ALLOWED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WE PROVIDE BOLT “AS IS” WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. FOR EXAMPLE, WE DON'T MAKE ANY WARRANTIES ABOUT THE CONTENT OR FEATURES OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING THEIR ACCURACY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, OR ABILITY TO MEET YOUR NEEDS.

Additionally, you agree not to hold us liable for any action taken from you using Bolt. In addition to that, you agree not to hold us liable for any content proxied through Bolt (messages, videos, images, et cetera). If you are in the United States of America, you waive your right to file a class action lawsuit against us.

Privacy Policy

Information we collect

To provide Bolt, we need to collect information about you. The amount of information we collect may include the following:

Data storage

Bolt stores data on an Oracle VM in Toronto, Canada. We do not provide third parties access to this data, except Oracle, Inc., who may access this data to support us in operating Bolt. We backup encrypted copies of our data to Microsoft Onedrive.

Data protection practices

We try to protect your information as best as we can. We do not share your information with third parties unless needed to provide Bolt. If you allow us to share your information with other third parties, we may share your information with those third parties. If we learn that we have collected information about a minor, we will delete that information immediately and to the extent possible. If we are made aware of unauthorized sharing of your information, we will notify you immediately and try to take action against those responsible.

Requesting your data

If you want a copy of your data, your data deleted, or to ask questions about the data used by Bolt, please email bolt-data@williamhorning.eu.org.

Government Agencies and Law Enforcement

Government Agencies and Law enforcement agencies may request that we share information with them, and we want to balance user privacy and government requests.

When we receive a request from a Government Agency to share data, we will carefully review the request to ensure it follows the laws of all applicable jurisdictions. Additionally, we will only provide the information necessary to comply and only if it is not a privacy risk.

If we believe that we can prevent or reduce the risk of harm by sharing information with Government Agencies, we may share information with those agencies. We still review these requests to make sure they comply with our policies and applicable laws.

If we get a request from a Government Agency regarding you, we will notify you as soon as possible unless legally prohibited. We will not notify you if a request is related to an emergency until after the emergency has passed.