Privacy Policy

Yokoi, LLC. ("Company," "we," "us," or "our") operates Hearing Highlights, a congressional hearing intelligence service. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you use our website, applications, and services (collectively, the "Service").

By accessing or using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Service.

Information We Collect

Information You Provide Directly. We collect information you provide when you create an account (email address, name, and password), subscribe to our Service (work email address and, for paid subscriptions, billing information processed by our payment processor), contact us, or provide feedback.

Information We Collect Automatically. When you access the Service, we automatically collect device information (IP address, browser type, operating system, and device identifiers), usage information (pages viewed, links clicked, features used, and time spent on the Service), and log data (access times, error logs, and referring URLs). We use Cloudflare Analytics, a privacy-focused analytics service that does not use cookies or track individual users across websites.

Information We Derive or Research. To personalize the Service, we derive and research information about you and your organization based on publicly available sources. We infer your employer or organization from your work email domain. We research publicly available information about your organization, including lobbying disclosure filings under the Lobbying Disclosure Act ("LDA"), industry classification, publicly stated policy positions, and other publicly available business information. Based on this research, we infer which congressional hearings and policy issues are likely relevant to your organization. This derived and researched information is stored and used solely to personalize your experience and determine which hearings are relevant to you.

How We Use Your Information

We use your information to:

• Provide, maintain, and improve the Service
• Personalize your experience by determining which congressional hearings are relevant to your organization's interests
• Generate personalized summaries and relevance notes using artificial intelligence
• Send you transactional emails (e.g., welcome emails, alerts, digests)
• Process payments and manage subscriptions
• Respond to your inquiries and provide customer support
• Analyze usage patterns to improve the Service
• Detect, prevent, and address technical issues and security threats
• Comply with legal obligations

How We Share Your Information

Service Providers. We share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, including Amazon Web Services (AWS SES) for email delivery, Cloudflare for hosting, content delivery, analytics, video streaming, and storage, DigitalOcean for server hosting, and AI service providers (Google/Gemini, OpenAI, and Anthropic) for generating personalized summaries and relevance notes. To provide personalization, we may share your company name and inferred interests with AI providers.

Note: We do not share any user personal information with AssemblyAI, our transcription provider. AssemblyAI only processes publicly available congressional hearing audio.

Sponsors. Our free tier includes sponsored content. We may share the list of companies represented by our subscribers (based on email domains) and the number of subscribers associated with each company with sponsors. We do not share individual subscriber names, email addresses, or personal contact information with sponsors.

Legal Requirements. We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process, a request from a government agency or law enforcement authority, to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our users or others, or to investigate potential violations of our Terms of Service.

Business Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction. We will notify you via email and/or a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or uses of your personal information.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you the Service. After unsubscribe, we retain your information for 30 days, after which it is deleted from our active systems. We may retain a hashed version of your email address on a suppression list to ensure we do not inadvertently email you after you have unsubscribed. We may retain certain information for longer periods as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

Your Rights and Choices

Access and Correction. You may access and update your account information at any time by logging into your account or by contacting us at privacy@hearinghighlights.com.

Deletion. You may request deletion of your personal information by contacting us. We will process your request within 30 days, subject to any legal retention requirements.

Unsubscribe. You may unsubscribe from our email communications at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any email or by contacting us. We will honor your request within 10 business days as required by the CAN-SPAM Act.

California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you have certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act:

• Right to Know: You have the right to request information about the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
• Right to Delete: You have the right to request deletion of your personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
• Right to Opt-Out of Sale: We do not sell your personal information.
• Right to Non-Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

To exercise your rights, contact us at privacy@hearinghighlights.com.

Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information, including encryption of data in transit using TLS/SSL, encryption of sensitive data at rest, access controls limiting who can access personal information, regular security assessments and monitoring, and employee training on data protection. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children's Privacy

The Service is intended for business and professional use and is not directed to individuals under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you believe we have collected information from a child under 18, please contact us.

International Data Transfers

Your information may be transferred to and processed in countries other than your country of residence, including the United States, where our servers and service providers are located. By using the Service, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and other countries.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by email or by posting a notice on the Service prior to the change becoming effective. Your continued use of the Service after any changes constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Yokoi, LLC.
Email: privacy@hearinghighlights.com
Address: 611 Gateway Blvd, Suite 120, South San Francisco, California 94080, United States