Specific Marketplace Privacy Policy

Specific Marketplace

Effective date: April 29, 2026

At Specific, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and disclose information about you when you visit our website at usespecific.com, register as a contributor, accept tasks, or otherwise use our services (the "Services"). Throughout this Privacy Policy, "we," "our," "us," and "Specific" refer to Specific Marketplace.

By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and disclose your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Your use of Specific is at all times subject to our Contributor Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use. This Privacy Policy is also closely related to our Data Use Policy, which explains how we treat the recordings, code, transcripts, and other materials you submit through the Services (collectively, "Submissions"). Submissions are stripped of personally identifiable information before they leave our systems and are used exclusively to train AI models. This Privacy Policy focuses on Personal Data we collect about you as a contributor; the Data Use Policy explains how we treat the contents of your Submissions.

As we continually work to improve our Services, we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you of material changes by placing a notice on the Specific website, by sending you an email, and/or by some other means. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes.

What this Privacy Policy covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. "Personal Data" means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as "personally identifiable information," "personal information," or "sensitive personal information" under applicable data privacy laws, rules, or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we do not own or control or people we do not manage.

Personal Data we collect

We may collect the categories of Personal Data below from contributors.

Profile and contact data

Includes your first and last name, email address, phone number, languages spoken, and any skill or expertise tags you provide. We collect this to provide, customize, and improve the Services; operate the contributor marketplace and process payouts; correspond with you; and for fraud prevention, security, and debugging.

Account credentials

Includes your Specific User ID and authentication tokens. We do not store your password in plaintext. We collect this to provide access to your account and secure the Services.

Payout data

Includes financial account information, payment method, last 4 digits of any card on file, billing address, and tax-related information. We collect this to process your payouts, comply with tax reporting requirements, and prevent fraud.

Government-issued ID and identity-verification data

Where we collect government-issued ID or identity-verification data for KYC or anti-fraud purposes, we use it to verify your identity and eligibility to receive payouts and to comply with anti-money-laundering and tax laws.

Submission metadata

Includes task ID, validation results, file format, file size, duration, language tag, and timestamps associated with your Submissions. The contents of Submissions themselves are governed by our Data Use Policy, not this Privacy Policy.

For voice cloning tasks, we also collect selected script identifiers, task-level consent records, one-minute trial status, trial quality metrics, trial transcription snippets, and accepted voice-cloning recording metadata. Trial recordings are used to check microphone quality and transcription before a full recording is submitted; accepted full recordings may be stored in a private AWS S3 bucket for review and dataset delivery.

Communications data

Includes messages you send to support, survey responses, and your communication preferences. We collect this to respond to you and to improve the Services.

Device and IP data

Includes IP address, device ID, operating system, browser type, and crash logs. We collect this to provide, customize, and improve the Services; operate the contributor marketplace; correspond with you; and for fraud prevention, security, and debugging.

Web analytics and approximate geolocation data

Includes page interactions, referring webpage or source, non-identifiable request IDs, IP-address-based location, and similar approximate location signals. We collect this to provide, customize, and improve the Services; market the Services; localize the Services; prevent fraud; and comply with sanctions and export-control laws.

Our commercial or business purposes for collecting Personal Data

We collect Personal Data to:

• Create and manage contributor accounts.
• Route tasks to contributors and process Submissions.
• Calculate and disburse payouts and issue tax forms where required.
• Provide support and assistance.
• Improve the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics, and product development.
• Personalize Services, website content, and communications.
• Provide fraud protection, security, and debugging.
• Tell contributors about new task types, payout opportunities, and product updates.
• Measure and improve the performance of our marketing.
• Respond to messages and send information about Specific or the Services.

Each category of Personal Data may also be collected, used, and disclosed with government authorities, law enforcement, or other parties to meet legal requirements, enforce legal terms, prevent or investigate security incidents or prohibited activities, protect rights and safety, respond to claims, and resolve disputes.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use Personal Data for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing notice or obtaining consent.

Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data from you when you create an account, complete your contributor profile, update payout information, voluntarily provide information in free-form text boxes, surveys, or support messages, or use the Services. We may also receive information from third-party credentials and providers, identity-verification, anti-fraud, tax-compliance, and payment providers.

SMS communications

If you provide your phone number and consent to receive SMS messages, we may send automated text messages related to your account, including notifications about new tasks, account activity, and important service-related updates. Message frequency varies based on account activity. Message and data rates may apply. We do not sell or share phone numbers used for SMS communications with third parties for their own marketing purposes. You may opt out by replying STOP to any message. For assistance, contact us at sid@usebear.ai.

How we disclose your Personal Data

We disclose Personal Data to service providers and other parties that help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include hosting, technology, communication, authentication, security, fraud-prevention, analytics, support, customer-service, identity-verification, KYC, and payment-processing providers.

Analytics partners may provide analytics on web traffic and usage of the Services. Posters and AI labs that license datasets from us receive Submissions only after they have been stripped of personally identifiable information and identifiers in accordance with our Data Use Policy. We do not share Personal Data with posters or AI labs in a form that would allow them to identify you, except where you have separately agreed to such sharing.

We may disclose Personal Data to meet legal obligations, and Personal Data may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business.

Aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data

We may create aggregated, de-identified, or anonymized data from Personal Data, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular contributor. We may use and disclose such data for lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build, improve, and promote the Services, provided that we will not disclose such data in a manner that could identify you.

Tracking tools, advertising, and opt-out

The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, and JavaScript (collectively, "Cookies") to recognize your browser, analyze trends, learn about our user base, and operate and improve the Services. The Services do not support "Do Not Track" requests sent from a browser at this time.

We may use Essential Cookies, Performance/Analytical Cookies, and Retargeting/Advertising Cookies. You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser's settings. To find out more about Cookies generally, including how to manage and delete them, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/.

Session replay technology

We may use session replay technology to identify and resolve issues, monitor and analyze how you use the Services, better understand contributor behavior, and improve the Services. Session replay focuses on how you interact with our application UI; it does not capture the contents of your Submissions, which are governed by our Data Use Policy. By continuing to use the Services, you consent to the use of session replay technology.

Data security

We seek to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational, and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Data and how we are processing that data. Raw Submissions are encrypted at rest and access within Specific is limited to authorized personnel with a need to know. No method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.

Data retention

We retain Personal Data for as long as necessary to provide the Services or perform our business or commercial purposes for collecting it. In some cases, we retain Personal Data for longer if necessary to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, collect amounts owed, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law. We may retain information in anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

Personal Data of children

The Services are intended for adult contributors. We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from individuals under 18 years of age. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a person under 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe a person under 18 may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at sid@usebear.ai.

State law privacy rights

California residents may contact us to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for such third parties' direct marketing purposes. To submit such a request, please contact us at sid@usebear.ai. Our Services do not support Do Not Track requests at this time.

Nevada residents: we do not currently sell Personal Data as "sale" is defined in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A.

Contact information

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

• Website: usespecific.com
• Email: sid@usebear.ai
• Address: 39 Tehama, San Francisco, CA