Data Consent Policy

F33LZ is provided by The Brewz LLC, doing business as F33LZ ("F33LZ," "Company," "we," "us," or "our"). This Data Consent Policy explains how we obtain, manage, and honor user consent for the collection, processing, analysis, sharing, and other use of voice recordings, transcripts, emotional insights, behavioral patterns, and related information through the F33LZ mobile application, website, and related services (collectively, the "Service").

This Data Consent Policy is part of, and should be read together with, our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. In the event of a conflict between this Data Consent Policy and our Privacy Policy, the Privacy Policy will control unless this Policy expressly states otherwise.

PLEASE READ THIS POLICY CAREFULLY. BY CREATING AN ACCOUNT, SUBMITTING CONTENT, RECORDING AUDIO, OR OTHERWISE USING THE SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS POLICY.

1. Purpose of This Policy

F33LZ is built around voice-based and text-based emotional reflection. Because the Service may process sensitive or highly personal information, including emotional expressions, inferred themes, behavioral patterns, support requests, and other intimate content, we use a consent architecture intended to provide users with meaningful control over how their data is used.

This Policy explains:

• what categories of consent we request;
• which uses of data are required for the Service to function;
• which uses are optional;
• how you can grant, refuse, or withdraw optional consent;
• what happens when consent is changed or withdrawn;
• the limits of withdrawal once data has been de-identified, aggregated, or otherwise lawfully incorporated into broader systems or outputs.

2. Important Nature of the Service

The Service may process:

• voice recordings;
• transcripts generated from voice;
• emotional, thematic, or behavioral inferences;
• support-need classifications;
• trend and pattern analysis;
• community-related matching or relevance signals.

Some of this information may be considered sensitive personal data, sensitive personal information, special-category data, health-adjacent data, or similar regulated information under certain laws depending on context, jurisdiction, and how the information is used.

The Service is not a medical, therapeutic, psychiatric, crisis-response, or emergency service. Any automated outputs, classifications, summaries, recommendations, tags, patterns, or insights are informational only and may be inaccurate, incomplete, inferential, or subjective.

3. Definitions

For purposes of this Policy:

"Core Data" means the minimum information reasonably necessary to create and operate your account and provide the fundamental features of the Service, including account data, voice recordings, transcripts, archive functionality, and baseline emotional analysis needed to deliver your requested Service experience.

"Optional Data Use" means any processing that is not strictly required to provide the baseline Service you requested and that depends on your separate opt-in or opt-out choice, where applicable.

"Derived Data" means data created from your use of the Service, including metadata, scores, emotional labels, themes, trend indicators, support-need classifications, engagement metrics, recommendations, analytics, and similar outputs.

"De-Identified Data" means information that has been processed so that it is not reasonably linkable to you under applicable law, whether alone or in combination with other reasonably available data.

"Consent" means your affirmative, informed, and, where required by law, explicit agreement to a specific category of processing.

4. Consent Architecture Overview

F33LZ uses a four-tier consent architecture:

Tier 1 is required to use the Service because the Service cannot function without it. Tiers 2, 3, and 4 are optional unless and until you choose to enable them.

Your current consent settings will be shown in the app where technically available. You may change optional settings at any time, subject to the limits described in this Policy.

5. Tier 1: Core Service Processing (Required)

A. What Tier 1 Covers

Tier 1 authorizes the minimum processing necessary to provide the Service you requested. This includes:

• creating and maintaining your account;
• storing your account credentials and profile settings;
• receiving and storing your voice recordings or text submissions;
• generating transcripts from submitted audio;
• storing your transcripts and archive history;
• performing baseline automated analysis needed to provide immediate user-facing insights, emotional labels, classifications, themes, support-need outputs, and archive organization;
• displaying your entries, archive, and related features back to you;
• protecting the security, integrity, and functionality of the Service;
• maintaining logs, backups, fraud-prevention systems, and operational records;
• carrying out essential customer support, debugging, and compliance activities.

B. Why Tier 1 Is Required

Without Tier 1 processing, we cannot provide the core F33LZ experience. If you do not consent to Tier 1, you may not use the Service.

C. Visibility Under Tier 1

Unless you separately choose to share content through another feature or consent tier, Tier 1 content is intended for your private use within the Service and internal processing necessary to provide the Service.

D. Revocation of Tier 1

Because Tier 1 is required, you cannot selectively withdraw Tier 1 consent and continue using the Service. If you no longer agree to Tier 1 processing, your option is to stop using the Service and request account deletion, subject to our retention rights and legal obligations.

6. Tier 2: Social / Community Matching and Visibility (Optional)

A. What Tier 2 Covers

Tier 2 permits us to use your content and derived data to support social, community, or emotionally relevant interactive features, such as:

• matching you with users, groups, or content based on shared themes, emotions, support needs, or similar signals;
• making selected profile information, transcript excerpts, tags, support requests, or community-facing content visible to others based on your settings;
• ranking, recommending, or routing content or interactions based on what you indicate you need or on your voluntary community participation;
• enabling support-oriented discovery features, emotional spaces, groups, and similar social functionality.

B. What Others May See

If you enable Tier 2 and use community features, other users may see some combination of:

• your display name;
• profile photo or avatar;
• profile details you choose to share;
• text excerpts, emotional tags, themes, or support-need signals connected to shared or matched content;
• reactions, comments, or community interactions you choose to make.

Unless we specifically tell you otherwise and you separately choose to share it, private raw audio recordings are not intended to be made public by default.

C. Risks of Tier 2

If you choose to enable social or community features, you understand that information shared with others may be seen, copied, discussed, reshared, captured, or retained by other users, and we cannot guarantee that other users will respect your preferences.

D. Withdrawal of Tier 2 Consent

You may disable Tier 2 at any time in settings. Disabling Tier 2 will apply prospectively. This means:

• future matching and future community use based on Tier 2 should stop within a reasonable operational period;
• existing community content you already shared may remain visible where removal is not technically immediate or where other users have already interacted with it;
• historical interactions, moderation records, abuse-prevention records, and system logs may still be retained as permitted by law.

7. Tier 3: Internal Research, Analytics, and Product Improvement (Optional)

A. What Tier 3 Covers

Tier 3 permits us to use your data for internal development and improvement purposes beyond what is strictly necessary to provide the baseline Service to you individually. This may include:

• improving transcription quality;
• improving emotional classification, support-need classification, and insight generation;
• improving recommendation, ranking, grouping, archive, safety, and moderation systems;
• evaluating product performance and behavioral trends;
• testing, validating, tuning, and monitoring algorithms, models, prompts, pipelines, and quality systems;
• conducting internal statistical, analytical, operational, or product-development research.

B. Data Used for Tier 3

Tier 3 may involve:

• transcripts;
• emotional labels;
• themes and classifications;
• metadata and usage patterns;
• de-identified or pseudonymized data sets;
• limited human review by authorized personnel, contractors, or vendors where reasonably necessary for testing, quality assurance, safety, debugging, or model improvement.

C. Human Access

Where needed, authorized personnel may review limited content for support, debugging, moderation, trust and safety, fraud prevention, or quality assurance. Such access is restricted by role and subject to confidentiality and internal controls.

D. Withdrawal of Tier 3 Consent

You may disable Tier 3 at any time. If you do:

• we will stop using newly collected eligible data for new Tier 3 processing after the change takes effect, subject to reasonable implementation delays;
• prior internal analyses, learnings, quality results, tuning results, and lawfully created de-identified or aggregated outputs may remain in use;
• information already incorporated into internal analytics, testing, safety logs, or de-identified training/evaluation sets may not be technically reversible or removable.

8. Tier 4: External Research, Benchmarking, and B2B / Institutional Insights (Optional)

A. What Tier 4 Covers

Tier 4 permits us to use and disclose qualifying information for external research, benchmarking, institutional analysis, or commercial insights products. This may include:

• academic research partnerships;
• enterprise or institutional reporting;
• benchmarks, trend reports, and emotion-related aggregate insights;
• licensed data products or research outputs derived from de-identified or aggregated information;
• synthetic, statistical, or benchmark data sets developed from qualifying data.

B. Data Restrictions Under Tier 4

Where Tier 4 is used, we intend to apply additional controls designed to reduce identifiability. Subject to applicable law and operational realities, Tier 4 is intended to exclude direct identifiers and is not intended to provide third parties with:

• your private account credentials;
• direct identifiers such as your private email address;
• raw private audio recordings, unless you separately and expressly agree otherwise;
• directly identifiable personal data where disclosure is not permitted by law or contract.

C. No Guarantee of Zero Re-Identification Risk

Although we may use contractual, technical, and organizational measures to reduce re-identification risk, no de-identification method can be guaranteed to be perfect in every context. By opting into Tier 4, you acknowledge that residual risks may exist.

D. Withdrawal of Tier 4 Consent

You may disable Tier 4 at any time for future eligible processing. Disabling Tier 4 does not require us to retrieve or destroy:

• lawfully disclosed de-identified or aggregated outputs already shared;
• completed reports, research results, benchmarks, or institutional deliverables already produced;
• historical business records required for legal, contractual, accounting, or audit reasons.

9. How Consent Is Obtained

We may obtain consent through account registration flows, onboarding screens, settings pages, in-app prompts, checkboxes, toggles, notices, click-throughs, or other mechanisms reasonably designed to document your choices.

Where required by applicable law, we will seek explicit consent for certain sensitive-data processing. Your continued use of the Service after receiving updated disclosures may serve as acknowledgment where permitted by law, but we will seek separate consent when legally required.

10. How to Change Consent Settings

You may review and update your optional consent settings at any time through available in-app controls or by contacting us at [email protected].

Changes generally apply prospectively, not retroactively, unless we expressly state otherwise or applicable law requires otherwise.

11. Effective Date of Consent Changes

When you change an optional consent setting:

• the new setting generally applies to eligible future processing once our systems update;
• there may be a short operational delay before the change is fully reflected across all systems;
• processing already completed before the change remains lawful if it was lawful at the time it occurred;
• certain historical logs, security records, backups, and legal-compliance records may continue to exist as permitted by law.

12. Withdrawal of Consent

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time through available settings or by contacting us. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that occurred before withdrawal became effective.

If you withdraw consent for optional processing, certain features may stop working or become unavailable. If you withdraw consent for required Tier 1 processing, you will no longer be able to use the Service.

13. When We May Still Process Data Without Optional Consent

Even if you do not opt into, or later withdraw from, optional tiers, we may still process data where permitted or required by law for reasons including:

• providing the core Service you requested;
• maintaining security, integrity, and abuse prevention;
• complying with legal obligations;
• preserving evidence, logs, or records relevant to disputes, investigations, or enforcement;
• protecting the rights, safety, and property of users, the public, or the Company;
• using de-identified or aggregated information where lawful.

14. De-Identified, Aggregated, and Derived Data

To the fullest extent permitted by law, if data has been de-identified, anonymized, aggregated, or otherwise transformed so that it is not reasonably linked to you, we may continue to retain, use, disclose, commercialize, analyze, license, or otherwise exploit that information for lawful purposes even if you later change your consent settings or delete your account.

Likewise, derived data, model-performance results, operational analytics, safety signals, and similar outputs may continue to be used where lawful and not reasonably linkable to you.

15. Account Deletion

If you request account deletion:

• we will take steps to delete or de-identify eligible personal data from active systems within a reasonable period, subject to technical limitations and legal obligations;
• backups, logs, security records, legal records, fraud-prevention records, and system archives may be retained for limited periods as permitted or required by law;
• data already de-identified, aggregated, or lawfully incorporated into analytics, reports, research outputs, or models may not be removable or reversible.

16. Sensitive-Data and Jurisdiction-Specific Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights relating to sensitive data, consent, access, correction, deletion, portability, restriction, objection, appeal, or limitation of certain uses or disclosures.

If you are entitled to such rights under applicable law, you may exercise them by contacting [email protected]. We may need to verify your identity before acting on your request. We may deny or limit requests where permitted by law.

Where applicable law provides a right to appeal a denied privacy request, you may submit an appeal by replying to our decision or emailing [email protected] with the subject line "Privacy Appeal."

17. Special Notice Regarding AI, Profiling, and Inferences

By enabling the relevant consent tier or using the Service, you understand that F33LZ may use automated tools, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and similar systems to:

• transcribe speech;
• classify sentiment, tone, emotion, themes, or support needs;
• organize and rank content;
• generate summaries, recommendations, and insights;
• identify patterns over time.

These processes may involve profiling or inferential processing. Outputs may be incorrect, incomplete, biased, or unsuitable. They are for informational purposes only and should not be treated as objective fact, diagnosis, or professional advice.

18. Incidents, Breaches, and Compliance

If we determine that a security incident, breach, or unauthorized acquisition of covered information has occurred, we may use your information as reasonably necessary to investigate, contain, remediate, document, and notify affected persons, regulators, law enforcement, partners, or others as required or permitted by law.

19. No Waiver of Company Rights

Nothing in this Policy limits our right to:

• enforce our Terms of Service;
• preserve evidence or records;
• comply with legal obligations;
• defend legal claims;
• protect the security and integrity of the Service;
• use information in a manner otherwise permitted by law.

20. Changes to This Policy

We may revise this Data Consent Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice through the Service or by other means where appropriate. The updated version will be posted with a revised "Last Updated" date.

If applicable law requires renewed consent for a materially different use of sensitive data, we will seek that consent.

21. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Data Consent Policy or wish to exercise privacy or consent-related rights, contact us at:

22. Important Interpretive Note

This Policy is intended to describe our consent framework in a user-facing way. It does not create any contractual promise beyond what is required by applicable law, our Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service, or any separate written agreement expressly signed by the Company.