Privacy Notice

1. About This Privacy Notice

This Privacy Notice describes the privacy practices of Root Pragmatic LLC (“Root Pragmatic LLC,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) with respect to information we collect from visitors and registered users of our website and related services (collectively, the “Service”).

Root Pragmatic LLC operates on a simple premise: we collect as little personal information as possible, we do not share it, we do not sell it, and we do not disclose it to third parties absent a valid court order. This Notice explains what we collect, why we collect it, how we protect it, and the rights you have with respect to it.

This Notice applies to all individuals who interact with the Service, regardless of state of residence. Where applicable U.S. state consumer privacy laws (including but not limited to the California Consumer Privacy Act and the Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act) provide additional rights, those rights are described in Section 8.

2. Personal Information We Collect and Process

Root Pragmatic LLC limits the personal information it collects to the minimum necessary to operate the Service. Specifically, we collect and process only:

• Name. The name you provide at account creation.
• Email address. The email address you provide at account creation and use to access the Service.

We do not collect Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, postal addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, government identifiers, financial account numbers, payment card numbers, biometric data, geolocation data, browsing history beyond what is strictly necessary to operate the Service, or any of the categories of “sensitive personal information” defined under applicable U.S. state consumer privacy laws.

Any user-generated content you choose to enter into or upload to the Service is stored in association with your account. “User-generated content” means any data, text, files, notes, or other material you create, input, or upload through the Service, regardless of subject matter. We treat user-generated content as confidential and apply the same handling standards described in this Notice. We do not access, review, analyze, or disclose user-generated content except as strictly necessary to operate the Service or as required by valid legal process.

3. Sources of Personal Information

We collect the personal information described in Section 2 directly from you, at the time you create an account or update your account information. We do not purchase, license, or otherwise acquire personal information about you from data brokers, advertising networks, social networks, public records, consumer reporting agencies, or other third-party sources.

4. Purposes for Collection of Personal Information

We use your name and email address solely to:

• Create and maintain your account.
• Authenticate you when you log in to the Service.
• Communicate with you about your account, including security notices, password resets, and material changes to the Service or this Notice.
• Respond to support requests you initiate.
• Comply with applicable legal obligations.

We do not use your personal information for advertising, marketing analytics, profiling, automated decision-making that produces legal or similarly significant effects, or any form of cross-context behavioral advertising.

5. Disclosing Personal Information

Root Pragmatic LLC does not disclose your personal information to third parties except in the following narrow circumstances:

• Court order or legally binding process. We will disclose personal information when we are compelled to do so by a valid court order, subpoena, warrant, or other legally binding process issued by a court or governmental authority of competent jurisdiction. Where we are legally permitted to do so, we will notify you before complying.
• With your express consent. If you direct us in writing to disclose specific information to a specific recipient, we will do so to the extent of your instruction.

We do not disclose personal information to affiliates, advertising networks, advertising platforms, social networks, internet service providers, data analytics providers, government entities (absent legal compulsion), or other third-party businesses for any commercial, marketing, analytics, or research purpose.

6. Sharing and Selling Personal Information

Root Pragmatic LLC does not sell your personal information. We do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise make personal information available to any third party in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Root Pragmatic LLC does not share your personal information for targeted advertising, cross-context behavioral advertising, or any similar purpose. We do not engage in these practices and have no plans to do so. Because we do not sell or share personal information for these purposes, there is no opt-out mechanism to enable; the default state is that no such activity occurs.

7. Retention of Personal Information

We retain your name and email address for as long as your account remains active. If you close your account, we will delete or anonymize this information within a reasonable period thereafter, except where a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law (for example, to comply with tax, audit, or legal hold obligations).

8. Privacy Rights and Requests

Depending on your state of residence and the applicable U.S. consumer privacy law, you may have some or all of the following rights with respect to the personal information we hold about you:

Right to Know and Access

You may request that we disclose the categories of personal information we have collected about you, the sources from which we collected it, the purposes for which we use it, and the specific pieces of personal information we hold about you. Because we collect only your name and email address, the answer to such a request is straightforward.

Right to Delete

You may request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you. We will honor such requests subject only to limitations imposed by applicable law (for example, where retention is necessary to comply with a legal obligation).

Right to Correct

You may request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you. You can also update your name and email address directly within your account settings.

Right to Portability

You may request a copy of your personal information in a portable, readily usable format.

Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not retaliate against you, deny you service, or otherwise treat you differently for exercising any of the rights described in this Notice.

Opt-Out Rights

Because Root Pragmatic LLC does not sell personal information and does not share personal information for targeted advertising or cross-context behavioral advertising, opt-out rights related to those activities do not apply. We honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals as a matter of policy, although they have no operative effect given our practices.

9. How to Make Requests

To exercise any of the rights described in Section 8, please contact us using the information in Section 11. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding, which may include confirming control of the email address associated with your account. Information you provide for verification will be used only to process your request.

Authorized agents, parents, legal guardians, and conservators may submit requests on your behalf where permitted by applicable law. We may verify the identity of such individuals and require proof of authority to act on your behalf.

If we deny or refuse to act on your request and applicable law provides an appeal right, you may appeal our determination within sixty (60) days of receiving it by contacting us using the information in Section 11.

10. Changes to This Privacy Notice

We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised Notice on the Service and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of the document. If the changes are material, we will notify registered users by email at the address associated with their account.

11. Contact Information

If you have a question, concern, or request related to this Privacy Notice or our information practices, please contact us at: