Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to TAKUMI Platform ("we," "our," or "us"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. The Data We Collect

We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data: includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier, title.
• Contact Data: includes email address, telephone numbers, linked social profiles (e.g., LinkedIn).
• Professional Data: includes company name, industry, role, and professional biography.
• Project Data: information you submit in project briefs or generated through platform communications.
• Technical Data: includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version.

3. How We Use Your Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (e.g., facilitating expert matching and research proposals).
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.

Data Processing & Artificial Intelligence: We utilize artificial intelligence (AI) models to assist in synthesizing project requests and generating reports. All project briefings and drafts processed by our AI infrastructure are handled securely. We do not use your proprietary briefings, private data, or internal documents to train our core foundation models. Your data remains yours.

4. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

5. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.

6. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us via our Support Page or by emailing privacy@takumi-platform.com.