Privacy Policy

This policy explains how Tenmore Inc., a corporation incorporated in Ontario (“Tenmore”, “we”, “us”) collects, uses, shares and protects personal information when you visit tenmore.com, create an account, or use our services (the “Service”). It is written to meet Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Quebec’s Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector (Law 25), and the EU and UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Our role

For your account, our website and our own operations, Tenmore decides how personal information is used: under the GDPR we are the controller.

When an organization (our customer) uses the Service for its people, the organization decides what is done with the information in its workspace, and we process it on its behalf: we are its processor (a service provider under Canadian law). Our Data Processing Agreement governs that processing. If you use the Service through your employer or another organization, its privacy notice also applies, and requests about your workspace data are best sent to it; we will help it answer.

The same applies when you chat with an assistant that one of our customers offers on its own website: that organization is responsible for your information, and we process it on its behalf (see section 4).

2. What we collect

We don’t ask for sensitive information (such as health or financial details), and the Service is not meant for it.

3. Content you send through the Service

The content of the requests you send through the Service, and of the answers to them, passes through our systems to reach the services your organization has chosen, and is not stored by us. Our records keep only the information listed under “Usage records”. Error messages are cleaned of quoted text and sensitive values before they are kept. Content is stored only when your organization chooses to save it in the Service (for example, test cases it writes), and then only for the period it sets.

The services your organization connects to the Service are chosen and contracted by your organization, and their own terms and privacy policies apply to what they receive.

During a free trial, we may provide an AI model from OpenAI so you can try the Service before connecting your own services. Requests sent to it go to OpenAI, our subprocessor, in the United States, which processes them to produce answers, does not use them to train its models, and may keep them for up to 30 days to detect abuse.

4. AI assistants and chats

The help assistant in the Service. When you ask it a question, we send your conversation, the page you are on, and the workspace information it looks up to answer you to OpenAI, our subprocessor, in the United States, which produces the answers. It looks up information only with your own permissions in the workspace. This information includes:

Keys, passwords and other secrets are never sent to it.

The assistant on our website. When you chat with it, we send your messages to OpenAI to produce the answers. We don’t store them, and the conversation stays in your browser. To limit abuse, we use your IP address in a form that is scrambled with a key that changes every day; the counts expire within hours. Our records of each chat carry a random visitor identifier, never your IP address. Please don’t share personal details in the chat.

Assistants our customers offer on their websites. The organization offering the assistant decides what it does and is responsible for your information; its privacy notice is linked from the chat, and the chat shows “Powered by Tenmore”. We process your messages on its behalf, to reach the AI service that organization has chosen. We handle them as on our own website:

Chats in the Service. Conversations with the assistants your organization sets up are kept only in your browser, and are cleared when you sign out.

5. How we use it, and why

PurposeLegal basis (GDPR)
Create and run your account and workspaces, and provide the ServicePerformance of a contract
Show your organization’s administrators usage, costs and changes, as the Service is designed toPerformance of a contract (with your organization), and its legitimate interests
Keep accounts and the Service secure, prevent abuse, and investigate incidentsLegitimate interests
Allow one free trial per person (see section 8)Legitimate interests
Send emails about your account, security, usage limits and changes to the ServicePerformance of a contract
Answer your questions and support requests, including through the help assistant, and make the workspace changes you approvePerformance of a contract, or legitimate interests
Answer website visitors’ questions about our services with the assistant on our websiteLegitimate interests
Limit abuse of website chats, using scrambled IP addressesLegitimate interests
Count visits to our website’s pages (daily totals)Legitimate interests
Bill paid plans, take payments, calculate and collect taxes, and keep accounting recordsPerformance of a contract, and legal obligation (tax and accounting records)
Meet legal obligations, such as tax records and lawful requestsLegal obligation

We don’t sell personal information, use it for advertising, or use the content you send through the Service to train models. We don’t make decisions about you based solely on automated processing that have legal or similarly significant effects. We will ask for your consent before sending you marketing email, and every such email will let you unsubscribe.

6. Who we share it with

7. Where it is stored

We store personal information in Canada, in Amazon Web Services’ Canada (Central) region in Montreal, Quebec. Our content delivery network passes requests through servers in North America and Europe without storing them, and some service providers listed above may process information in the United States.

The European Commission recognizes Canada as providing adequate protection for personal information, so information from the EU can be sent to us without further safeguards. Where information leaves Canada, we use the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or another lawful mechanism, and, for information about people in Quebec, we assess the transfer before it happens, as Quebec law requires.

8. How long we keep it

InformationKept
Account informationUntil you delete your account
Usage records90 days by default; each organization can choose from 30 days to 1 year
Monthly usage totals2 years
Changes to a workspace (audit log)1 year by default; each organization can choose up to 2 years
Your sign-in and security records1 year
Your organization’s subscription record (plan, seats, status, Stripe identifiers)While the workspace exists
Invoices and payment recordsSix years after the end of the tax year they relate to, as Canadian tax law requires; kept by Stripe and in our accounting records, also after a workspace is deleted
Notifications from Stripe (identifiers only, to avoid handling one twice)30 days
Server logs, including website access logs30 days
Daily website visit totals (per page, referring site and country; no IP addresses)2 years
Chats with AI assistantsNot stored by us; history only in your browser
Question counts (help assistant) and scrambled IP counts (website chats)A few hours
Workspace changes the help assistant proposes10 minutes while waiting for approval; once approved, in the audit log like any change
A workspace whose free trial or subscription has ended (read-only)30 days after a trial, 90 days after a subscription, then deleted; owners are emailed 30 days and 7 days before
Backups35 days
Trial eligibilityWhile we offer free trials. We keep a keyed, one-way code derived from your email address and Microsoft account, which can’t be turned back into either, so that one person gets one trial, even after deleting an account

When you delete your account, or an owner deletes a workspace, the information is deleted within 30 days, and from backups within 35, except invoices and payment records, which we keep as long as tax law requires. Records about your activity in a workspace you shared with others belong to that organization and follow its retention settings.

9. Security

We encrypt information in transit and at rest, and encrypt secrets (such as keys for connected services and authenticator secrets) with keys held separately from the data. Passwords are stored as one-way hashes; two-step verification is available to everyone. Access to production systems is limited to the people who need it, goes through single sign-on with multi-factor authentication, and is logged. If a breach of security creates a real risk of significant harm to you, we will tell you and the relevant authorities, as the law requires.

10. Your rights

Depending on where you live, you can:

Email privacy@tenmore.com. We will answer within 30 days and may need to confirm your identity first. If the information is held for an organization you belong to, we will pass your request to it and help it answer.

11. Cookies

We use only cookies and browser storage needed to sign you in, keep your session secure, remember your choices in the Service, and keep chat history in your browser. We use no advertising or analytics cookies, so we don’t ask for consent to them. Our website and the Service load everything they need, fonts included, from our own servers.

12. Children

The Service is for organizations and is not intended for anyone under 16. We don’t knowingly collect information from children.

13. Changes

If we change this policy, we will update the date above and, for significant changes, tell account holders by email before the change takes effect.

14. Contact and complaints

Our Privacy Officer is responsible for the protection of personal information at Tenmore Inc. Contact: privacy@tenmore.com.

By mail:
Tenmore Inc.
145 1/2 Church Street Office 985
Toronto ON M5B 1Y4
Canada

If you’re not satisfied with our answer, you can contact the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca), Quebec’s Commission d’accès à l’information (cai.gouv.qc.ca), or the data protection authority where you live or work in the EU or the UK.