1. Introduction

Welcome to Gokino ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. When you use our AI-powered Arduino IDE, including our website at gokino.dev, application, and related services (collectively, the "Services"), you trust us with your personal information.

This privacy policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

2. Information We Collect

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, and when you participate in activities on the Services.

Personal Information: We collect names, email addresses, and passwords via our secure authentication system.
Payment Data: We collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by our payment processor.
Code & Project Data: To provide AI assistance, code completion, and cloud storage features to you, we process and store your Arduino sketches, code snippets, and project files.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations.

To provide AI Services

We process your code snippets to generate suggestions, completions, and bug fixes using our AI models.

Account Management

To facilitate account creation and logon process and manage user accounts securely.

Service Improvement

To identify usage trends and improve our IDE features and user experience.

Communication

To send you administrative information, product updates, and policy changes.

4. Infrastructure & Third-Party Services

We leverage enterprise-grade cloud infrastructure and best-in-class service providers to ensure the highest levels of security, performance, and reliability for your data. We may share your data with the following categories of vendors who perform services for us:

Infrastructure Category	Purpose & Benefits
Cloud Infrastructure & Edge Network	We utilize a globally distributed edge network and serverless computing architecture to ensure your IDE loads instantly from anywhere in the world, with enterprise-grade DDoS protection and 99.99% uptime.
Authentication & Database	Your data is secured by an enterprise-grade database provider complying with SOC2, HIPAA, and GDPR standards, ensuring your account and project data are encrypted at rest and in transit.
Payment Processing	We use a globally recognized payment processor (Paypal) to handle all financial transactions securely. We never store your credit card information directly on our servers.

5. Data Security

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security, and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

6. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at support@gokino.dev.