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Websites Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 1, 2025

Last Updated: February 17, 2026

This SmartGenix AI LLC ("SmartGenix AI") Privacy Policy describes our collection of information during your interactions with our website found at epiccharacters.ai, epicstories.ai, and smartgenix.ai (our "Websites"), and the rights and choices you have regarding your information.

This Privacy Policy covers only our Websites.

I. Information Collection

When operating our Websites, SmartGenix AI may collect data, including Personal Information about you. The types of information we may collect depends on your level of engagement with the Websites. "Personal Information" means information that can reasonably be linked to a particular individual or household.

Sources of Information Collection. We may collect Personal Information from a variety of sources, including directly from you and your interactions with our Websites. We may also obtain information about you from other sources, including through third-party services.

The Personal Information we may collect includes:

Identifiers. We may collect identifiers when you voluntarily provide it to us. This includes:

• Name
• Phone number
• Email
• Any other identifiers or information you choose to provide us
• Contents of the message you provide us

II. Cookie Usage & Policy

We may use first party and third-party cookies on our Websites. Different cookies are used to perform different functions, explained below. A visit to our Websites could generate the following types of cookies:

• "Strictly necessary" cookies, which are first party cookies that must be set to allow us to deliver the Websites and provide you with specific services.
• "Performance" cookies, which are first party cookies that help us collect information about how visitors use our Websites and allow us to complete Websites analysis and improvements. Performance cookies will remain on your computer after you close your browser.
• "Functionality" cookies, which allow our Websites to remember your choices or preferences. These cookies enable you to move around our Websites and use its features such as accessing secure areas (e.g. content for registered users) and allow us to offer you a personalized experience while using the Websites.
• "Analytics" cookies, which allow us to see how you use our Websites.
• "Third Party" cookies, which are deployed by third party partners.

Cookies stay on your device for different periods of time depending on the type of cookie that is placed. These include:

• Session Cookies. We use session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain on your device until you leave our Websites.
• Persistent Cookies. We also use persistent cookies, which remain on your device for a longer period of time to remember your preferences.

Information collected from cookies includes:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Browser settings
• Device ID
• Operating system
• Cookie ID
• Browsing history

III. Google Analytics Disclosure

Our Websites use Google Analytics 4 (GA4), a web analytics service provided by Google LLC. GA4 uses cookies to help us understand how visitors interact with our Websites. The information generated by these cookies about your use of our Websites is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.

The specific Google Analytics cookies used on our Websites include:

• _ga — Used to distinguish unique users. Expires after 2 years.
• _ga_[Measurement ID] — Used to persist session state. Expires after 2 years.
• _gid — Used to distinguish unique users. Expires after 24 hours.
• _gat — Used to throttle request rate. Expires after 1 minute.

We have enabled IP anonymization in Google Analytics, which means your IP address is truncated before transmission to Google. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our Websites, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

For more information about Google's privacy practices, visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy

IV. Your Cookie Choices

When you first visit our Websites, you are presented with a cookie consent banner that requires your affirmative action before any analytics cookies are set. You may:

• Accept — Google Analytics cookies will be set and website usage data will be collected.
• Decline — No analytics cookies will be set and no usage data will be collected. Any existing analytics cookies will be deleted.

You may withdraw or change your consent at any time by clicking the "Cookie Settings" button that appears at the bottom-left corner of any page on our Websites after your initial choice.

You may also control cookies through your web browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies. Please note that blocking all cookies may affect the functionality of some websites.

V. Use of Personal Information

SmartGenix AI may use Personal Information for a variety of purposes, including to:

• Manage our business and provide our Websites. SmartGenix AI may use Personal Information to facilitate usage of the Websites.
• Communicate. SmartGenix AI may use Personal Information to communicate important business information, including delivering notices to you about the use of our Websites.
• Protect our business. SmartGenix AI may use Personal Information to protect against fraud, unauthorized transactions, and other liabilities, and to secure our Websites by identifying potential hackers and unauthorized users.
• Ensure security and efficiency and to comply with the law. We may use Personal Information for other purposes with your consent or where permitted by law, for example to comply with applicable legal requirements, court orders, legal proceedings, document requests, industry standards, and our internal policies.

VI. Disclosure of Personal Information

We may disclose your Personal Information in the following ways and circumstances:

• When you consent. SmartGenix AI will not disclose your Personal Information to others without your consent, except as specified in this Privacy Policy.
• With our service providers and vendors. We may transfer all or a portion of your Personal Information to our service providers who help us deliver our Websites to you and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
• For a merger, acquisition, change in ownership, or reorganization. Data and Personal Information we have collected may be disclosed to a third party in the event of a merger, transfer of ownership or assets, bankruptcy, or other corporate reorganization.
• For data analytics. We may share your Personal Information with analytics service providers.
• When we are legally permitted or required to do so. SmartGenix AI may disclose without your prior consent any Personal Information about you or your use of our services, if we believe disclosure is necessary or required by law.

VII. Your Privacy Rights & Options

United States Rights. Certain states in the U.S., e.g. California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights related to their Personal Information. Although some of these rights apply generally, certain rights will only apply to limited individuals or circumstances. To the extent that these laws apply, you may exercise the following rights:

• Right to Know and Access Information. Note that much of the information you are entitled to know or access is disclosed in this Privacy Policy. With this said, you have the right to know about our information practices. You also have the right to access the categories of data we collect, with whom we share or sell that information, and, in some cases, what specific Personal Information we associate with you or your account.
• Right to Data Portability. If you request a copy of your specific information then we will provide it in an easily accessible format.
• Right to Deletion or Erasure. You may request that we delete the information we have collected about you. Depending on the applicable law, in some cases we are required or permitted to retain your information, even if you validly requested we delete or erase it.
• Right to Correct Information. You may request we correct or rectify inaccurate information we have collected about you.
• Right to Opt-out of Targeting Advertising, Sales, or Profiling. You may opt-out of our use of your Personal Information for targeted advertising, sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects. We do not knowingly collect or sell information from children under the age of 16.

To exercise any of your privacy rights, contact us at the information provided within this Privacy Policy.

Appeal. If we deny your rights request, you have the right to request an appeal of our decision. To initiate an appeal, follow the instructions provided in the communication denying your request, or contact us at the contact information provided in this Notice.

Non-Discrimination. You have the right to not experience discrimination from us for exercising the rights listed in this section. What we mean by discrimination is denying you access to our Websites or limiting the quality of our Websites.

Email communications. You may control how you receive certain types of email communications by unsubscribing within the body of the communication. Note that some messages are required, service-related messages such as transaction confirmation messages, legal notices, or updates of which you may not opt-out.

Do Not Track Signals. DNT is a privacy preference you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. Because there is currently no industry or legal standard recognizing or honoring DNT signals, we do not recognize them.

VIII. Third Party Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to our Websites. Our Websites may contain links to other Websites including those that permit online transactions. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors, or other third parties we link to from our Websites. SmartGenix AI does not endorse, approve, or certify these other Websites, and we do not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, efficacy, or timeliness of the information contained on those Websites. You should check the applicable privacy policy of the Websites sponsor when linking to other Websites.

IX. Information Retention

SmartGenix AI uses several criteria to determine how long we should keep categories of Personal Information. We may retain your Personal Information for the time period reasonably necessary to achieve the business purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy to the extent permitted by applicable law.

Please understand that residual copies of the Personal Information can be stored in locations or formats that make complete erasure extremely difficult. The best way to ensure you control your information is to give us only the Personal Information that you are completely comfortable sharing with us.

X. Security

SmartGenix AI takes reasonable steps to secure your Personal Information. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to ensure that any Personal Information maintained is stored and processed responsibly. However, no internet transmission is ever fully secure, and we cannot guarantee that information transmitted via our Websites will remain confidential at all times.

XI. Changes to Privacy Policy

We may update or change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the changes on our Websites and will indicate the effective date. Your continued use of the Websites after the changes are effective constitutes your acceptance of the Privacy Policy.

XII. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at: privacy@smartgenix.ai