Privacy Policy

CS Disco, Inc. and its affiliates ("DISCO," "we", “us” or "our") provide a cloud-native, artificial intelligence-powered legal solution that simplifies ediscovery, legal document review, legal hold and case management for enterprises, law firms, legal services providers, and governments. This Privacy Policy describes how DISCO processes personal information that we collect through our digital or online properties or services that link to this Privacy Policy (including as applicable, our website and social media pages) as well as our marketing activities, live events, and other activities described in this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Web Services”). 

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that we process on behalf of our business customers (such as businesses and other organizations) while providing the DISCO products and services to them. Our use of information that we process on behalf of our business customers will be governed by our agreements with such customers. If you have concerns regarding your personal information that we process on behalf of a business customer, please direct your concerns to that customer.

California Notice at Collection: For California residents, see the California privacy rights section below for important information about your rights under California law.

NOTICE TO EUROPEAN USERS: Please see the Notice to European Users section for additional information for individuals located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom (which we refer to as “Europe”, and “European” should be understood accordingly) below.

Index

Personal information we collect

Tracking technologies

How we use your personal information

Retention

How we share your personal information

Your choices

Other sites and services

Security 

International data transfer

Children

Changes to this Privacy Policy

How to contact us

Your California privacy rights

Notice to European users

Information you provide to us. Personal information you may provide to us through the Web Services or otherwise includes:

• Contact data, such as your first and last name, salutation, email address, billing and mailing addresses, professional title, company name, and phone number.
• Demographic data, such as your city, state, country of residence, and postal code.
• Profile data, such as the username and password that you may set to establish an online account on the Web Services, the organization with which your profile is associated, preferences and any other information that you add to your account profile.  
• Transactional data, such as information relating to or needed to complete transactions on or through the Web Services, including contract records and transaction history. 
• Payment data needed to complete transactions, including bank account number and available information associated with an automated clearing house (ACH) transfer or wire transfer. We use a third-party vendor to directly collect and process your payment card information, as described further below.
• Communications data based on our exchanges with you, including when you contact us through the Web Services, communicate with us via chat features or telephone, social media, text, or otherwise. 
• Marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications, details about your engagement with them, and records of live event participation.
• User-generated content data, such as comments, questions, messages, works of authorship, and other content or information that you generate, transmit, or otherwise make available on the Web Services, as well as associated metadata. Metadata includes information on how, when, where and by whom a piece of content was collected and how that content has been formatted or edited. Metadata also includes information that users can add or can have added to their content, such as keywords, geographical or location information, and other similar data.
• Other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Third-party sources. We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information falling within one of the categories identified above that we obtain from other sources, such as:

• Public sources, such as public records, websites, social media platforms, and other publicly available sources.
• Private sources, such as data providers and data licensors. 

Automatic data collection. We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Web Services, our communications, and other online services, such as:

• Device data, such as your computer or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers (including identifiers used for advertising purposes), language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or geographic area.
• Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Web Services, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.
• Communication interaction data such as your interactions with our email or other communications (e.g., whether you open and/or forward emails) – we may do this through use of pixel tags (which are also known as clear GIFs), which may be embedded invisibly in our emails. 

For more information concerning our automatic collection of data, please see the Tracking technologies section below.

Data about others. We may offer features that help users invite their contacts to use the Web Services, and we may collect contact details about these invitees so we can deliver their invitations. Please do not refer someone to us or share their contact details with us unless you have their permission to do so. 

Cookies and other technologies. Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by cookies and other technologies. For more information, see our Cookie Notice. We will also store a record of your preferences in respect of the use of these technologies in connection with the Web Services.

We may use your personal information for the following purposes or as otherwise described at the time of collection:

Web Services delivery and operations. We may use your personal information to:

• provide and operate the Web Services and our business;
• enable security features of the Web Services;

• establish and maintain your user profile on the Web Services;

• communicate with you about the Web Services, including by sending Web Service-related announcements, updates, security alerts, support and administrative messages, or messages related to the status of our Web Services;
• facilitate features of the Web Services, such as uploading and processing user-generated content to enable natural language AI to search through them and enable the Web Services;
• communicate with you about events in which you participate; and
• provide support for the Web Services, and respond to your requests, questions, and feedback.

Web Services personalization, which may include using your personal information to:

• understand your needs and interests;
• personalize your experience with the Web Services and our Web Services-related communications; and
• remember your selections and preferences as you navigate webpages.

Web Services improvement and analytics. We may use your personal information to analyze your usage of the Web Services, improve the Web Services, improve the rest of our business, help us understand user activity on the Web Services, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Web Services, as well as user interactions with our emails, and to develop new products and services. For more information on analytics, see our Cookie Notice. 

Marketing and advertising. We, our service providers, and our third-party advertising partners may collect and use your personal information for marketing and advertising purposes:

• Direct marketing. We may send you direct marketing communications and may personalize these messages based on your needs and interests. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of communications section below.  
• Interest-based advertising. We and our third-party advertising partners may use cookies and other technologies to collect information about your interaction (including the data described in the automatic data collection section above) with the Web Services, our communications, and other online services over time, and use that information to serve online ads that they think will interest you. This is called interest-based advertising. We may also share information about our users with these companies to facilitate interest-based advertising to those or similar users on other online platforms. You can learn more about your choices for limiting interest-based advertising in the Your choices section of our Cookie Notice. 

Events, promotions and contests. We may use your personal information to: 

• administer promotions and contests;
• communicate with you about promotions or contests in which you participate; and
• contact or market to you after collecting your personal information at an event.

Compliance and protection. We may use your personal information to:

• comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas, investigations, or requests from government authorities;
• protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety, or property (including by making and defending legal claims); 
• audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies; 
• enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Web Services; and 
• prevent, identify, investigate, and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical, or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.  

Data sharing in the context of corporate events, we may share certain personal information in the context of actual or prospective corporate events – for more information, see How we share your personal information, below.

To create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data. We may create aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into de-identified and/or anonymized data by removing information that makes the data identifiable to you, and we will not attempt to reidentify any such data. We may use this aggregated, de-identified and/or anonymized data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Web Services and promote our business.  

Further uses, in some cases, we may use your personal information for further uses, in which case we will ask for your consent to use of your personal information for those further purposes if they are not compatible with the initial purpose for which information was collected.

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for compliance and protection purposes.

To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to information that we process on behalf of our business customers (such as businesses and other organizations) while providing the DISCO products and services to them. Our retention of information that we process on behalf of our business customers is governed by our agreements with such customers. If you have concerns regarding your personal information that we process on behalf of a business customer, please direct your concerns to that customer.

We may share your personal information with the following parties and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, in other applicable notices, or at the time of collection.  

Web Services providers. Third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Web Services or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, online chat functionality providers, SMS or email delivery, marketing, consumer research, and website analytics). 

Payment processors. Any payment card information you use to make a purchase is collected and processed directly by our payment processor, Stripe. Stripe may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy, https://stripe.com/privacy.

Advertising partners. Third-party advertising companies for the interest-based advertising purposes described above. 

Third parties designated by you. We may share your personal information with third parties where you have instructed us or provided your consent to do so. 

Partners. Third parties with whom we partner, including parties with whom we co-sponsor events or promotions, with whom we jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you.

Professional advisors. Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and others. Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Compliance and protection purposes described above. 

Business transferees. We may disclose personal information in the context of actual or prospective business transactions (e.g., investments in DISCO, financing of DISCO, public stock offerings, or the sale, transfer or merger of all or part of our business, assets or shares), for example, we may need to share certain personal information with prospective counterparties and their advisers. We may also disclose your personal information to an acquirer, successor, or assignee of DISCO as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of assets, or similar transaction, and/or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which personal information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.

In this section, we describe the rights and choices available to all users. Users who are located in specific US states and Europe can find additional information about their rights in the sections below.

Access or update your information. If you have a profile with us through the Web Services, you may review and update certain account information by logging into the account and navigating to the profile page.  

Opt-out of communications. You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of marketing-related emails, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

If you receive text messages from us, you may opt out of receiving further text messages from us by replying STOP to our message.

Do Not Track. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Declining to provide information. We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as required or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services.

The Web Services may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications, or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications, and online services you use.

We employ technical, organizational, and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. 

We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.  

Users in Europe should read the important information provided below about transfer of personal information outside of Europe.

The Web Services are not intended for use by anyone under 18 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Web Services from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Web Services or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your use of the Web Services after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acknowledging that the modified Privacy Policy applies to your interactions with the Web Services and our business.

• Email: privacy@csdisco.com
• Address: CS Disco, Inc. Attn: General Counsel 111 Congress Ave, Suite 900 Austin, Texas 78701
• Phone: +1.833.653.4726

This section applies only to California residents. It describes how we collect, use, disclose and share personal information of California residents in operating our business, and their rights with respect to that personal information. For purposes of this section, “Personal Information” means personal information protected by the California Consumer Privacy Act (as amended) (“CCPA”) but does not include data exempted from the scope of the CCPA.

Your California privacy rights. As a California resident, you have the rights listed below. However, these rights are not absolute, and, in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.

• Information. You can request information about the categories of Personal Information that we have collected; the categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting, sharing and/or selling Personal Information; the categories of any Personal Information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and the categories of any third parties with whom Personal Information was sold, shared or disclosed for a business purpose.
• Access. You can request a copy of the Personal Information that we have collected about you.
• Deletion. You can ask us to delete the Personal Information that we have collected from you.
• Correction. You can ask us to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we have collected about you.
• Opt-out. You can opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information for interest-based advertising purposes and/or from the sale of your Personal Information for monetary or other valuable consideration (as applicable).
• Nondiscrimination. You are entitled to exercise the rights described above free from discrimination. This means that we will not penalize you for exercising your rights by taking actions such as denying you services; increasing the price/rate of services; decreasing service quality; or suggesting that we may penalize you as described above for exercising your rights.

How to Exercise Your Rights

• Right to information, access, correction, and deletion. You can request to exercise these rights by calling us toll free at +1.833.653.4726 or via email to privacy@csdisco.com.
• Right to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information. You can request to opt-out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information by clicking the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information link in the footer of this webpage. Your request to opt-out will apply only to the browser and the device from which you submit the request.

Identity verification. We need to verify your identity to process your requests to exercise your rights to know, access, deletion, and correction, and we reserve the right to confirm your California residency. To verify your identity, we may require you to log into your account if you have one, provide identifiers we can match against information we may have collected from you previously, confirm your request using the email address used to make the request, provide government identification, or provide a declaration under penalty of perjury, where permitted by law. 

Authorized agents. Your authorized agent may make a request on your behalf upon our verification of the agent’s identity and our receipt of a copy of a valid power of attorney given to your authorized agent pursuant to applicable state law. If you have not provided your agent with such a power of attorney, we may ask you and/or your agent to take additional steps permitted by law to verify that your request is authorized, such as information required to verify your identity and that you have given the authorized agent permission to submit the request. 

Information practices. The following describes our practices currently and during the past 12 months:

• Sale and sharing of Personal Information. We have no actual knowledge that we have sold or shared the Personal Information of California residents under 16 years of age.
• Sensitive personal information. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information (as that term is defined under CCPA) for purposes that California residents have a right to limit under the CCPA.
• Deidentified data. We do not attempt to reidentify deidentified information that we derive from Personal Information except that we may do so to test whether our deidentification processes comply with applicable law.
• Retention. Our criteria for deciding how long to retain Personal Information is generally based on whether such period is sufficient to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it as described in this Privacy Policy, including complying with our legal obligations.  
• Sources and purposes. We collect all categories of Personal Information from the sources, use them for the business purposes described in the Personal information we collect and How we use your personal information sections above, and disclose them for the business and commercial purposes described in the How we share personal information section above. 
• Collection and disclosure. The chart below describes the Personal Information we collect by reference to the categories of personal information specified in the CCPA (Cal. Civ. Code §1798.140), and the categories of third parties to whom we disclose Personal Information for business purposes. The terms in the chart refer to the categories of information and third parties described above in this Privacy Policy in more detail. Information you voluntarily provide to us, such as in free-form webforms, may contain other categories of Personal Information not described below. We may also disclose Personal Information to professional advisors, authorities and others, and business transferees as described above in the How we share personal information section above. 

General

Where this Notice to European users applies. The information provided in this “Notice to European users” section applies only to individuals in the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (i.e., “Europe” as defined at the top of this Privacy Policy).

Personal information. References to “personal information” in this Privacy Policy should be understood to include a reference to “personal data” (as defined in the GDPR) – i.e., information about individuals from they are either directly identified or can be identified.   

Controller. DISCO is the controller in respect of the processing of your personal information covered by this Privacy Policy for purposes of European data protection legislation (i.e., the EU GDPR and the so-called UK GDPR (as and where applicable, the “GDPR”)). See the ‘How to contact us’ section above for our contact details.

Our Data Protection Officer. We have appointed a “Data Protection Officer”, this is a person who is responsible for independently overseeing and advising us in relation to our compliance with the GDPR (including compliance with the practices described in this Privacy Policy). If you want to contact our Data Protection Officer directly, you can email: dpo@csdisco.com.  

Our legal bases for processing 

In respect of each of the purposes for which we use your personal information, the GDPR requires us to ensure that we have a “legal basis” for that use. 

Our legal bases for processing your personal information described in this Privacy Policy are listed below.

• Where we need to perform a contract that we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (“Contractual Necessity”).
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests (“Legitimate Interests”). More detail about the specific legitimate interests pursued in respect of each Purpose we use your personal information for is set out in the table below.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (“Compliance with Law”).
• Where we have your specific consent to carry out the processing for the Purpose in question (“Consent”).  

We have set out below, in a table format, the legal bases we rely on in respect of the relevant Purposes for which we use your personal information – for more information on these Purposes and the data types involved, see How we use your personal information: 

Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to establish or defend legal claims, or for Compliance and protection purposes.  

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. 

When we no longer require the personal information, we have collected about you, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. If we anonymize your personal information (so that it can no longer be associated with you), we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Other info

No sensitive personal information. We ask that you not provide us with any sensitive personal information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the services. If you provide us with any sensitive personal information to us when you use the services, you must consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such sensitive personal information through our services. Sensitive personal information that we process on behalf of our business customers (such as businesses and other organizations) while providing the DISCO products and services to them does not fall under this Privacy Policy and will be processed according to the terms of our agreement with the customer.  

No Automated Decision-Making and Profiling. As part of the Web Services, we do not engage in automated decision-making and/or profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects. 

Your rights

General. European data protection laws give you certain rights regarding your personal information. If you are located in Europe, you may ask us to take the following actions in relation to your personal information that we hold:

• Access. Provide you with information about our processing of your personal information and give you access to your personal information.
• Correct.  Update or correct inaccuracies in your personal information.
• Delete. Delete your personal information where there is no lawful reason for us continuing to store or process it, where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal information to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons that will be described to you, if applicable, at the time of your request; 
• Portability. Port a machine-readable copy of your personal information to you or a third party of your choice, in certain circumstances. Note that this right only applies to automated information for which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
• Restrict. Restrict the processing of your personal information, if, (i) you want us to establish the personal information's accuracy; (ii) where our use of the personal information is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (iii) where you need us to hold the personal information even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (iv) you have objected to our use of your personal information but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
• Object. Object to our processing of your personal information where we are relying on Legitimate Interests (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation that makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedom – you also have the right to object where we are processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
• Withdraw Consent. When we use your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. 

Exercising These Rights. You may submit these requests by email to dpo@csdisco.com or our postal address provided above. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and process your request. Whether or not we are required to fulfill any request you make will depend on a number of factors (e.g., why and how we are processing your personal information), if we reject any request you may make (whether in whole or in part) we will let you know our grounds for doing so at the time, subject to any legal restrictions.  

Your Right to Lodge a Complaint with your Supervisory Authority. In addition to your rights outlined above, if you are not satisfied with our response to a request you make, or how we process your personal information, you can make a complaint to the data protection regulator in your habitual place of residence. 

• For users in the European Economic Area – the contact information for the data protection regulator in your place of residence can be found here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en
• For users in the UK – the contact information for the UK data protection regulator is below:

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Water Lane, Wycliffe House

Wilmslow - Cheshire SK9 5AF

Tel. +44 303 123 1113

Website: https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/

Data Processing outside of the EU or UK  

We are a U.S.-based company and many of our service providers, advisers, partners, or other recipients of data are also based in the U.S. This means that, if you use the Web Services, your personal information will necessarily be accessed and processed in the U.S. It may also be provided to recipients in other countries outside of the EU or UK. In such circumstances, those parties’ processing of your personal information will involve a transfer of your personal information outside of the EU or UK where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country. Where we share your personal information with third parties who are based outside of the EU or UK, we will take steps to transfer your personal information in accordance with applicable law.

You may contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal information out of the EU or UK. You may have the right to receive a copy of the appropriate safeguards under which your personal information is transferred by contacting us at dpo@csdisco.com.

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