Privacy Policy

Effective Date:  October 20, 2022

Welcome, and thank you for your interest in Kodiak Robotics, Inc. (“Kodiak,” “Company,” “we,” or “us”). Kodiak values your support and is committed to protecting your privacy. This statement (the “Privacy Policy”) sets forth our policies and practices for handling your personal information on the kodiak.ai website and any other website that Kodiak operates and that links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Website”), and the content and functionality provided via the Website (such content and functionality, together with the Website, collectively, the “Company Service”). This Privacy Policy describes what information we gather from you, how we use and disclose that information, and what we do to protect it. By accessing or using the Company Service, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this policy.  Capitalized terms used, but not defined, in this policy have the meanings given to them in the Kodiak Terms of Use (the “Terms”).

The Information We Collect:

We collect the following categories of information (collectively, “Personal Information”) from the sources described below:

• Information you provide directly to us:Personal Identifiers, including your name, contact information, online identifiers, demographic information, and account credentials.Correspondence you send to us.If you decide that you wish to apply for a job with us, you may submit your contact information and your resume online. We will collect the information you choose to provide on your resume, such as your education and employment experience. You may also apply through LinkedIn. If you do so, we will collect the information you make available to us on LinkedIn.
• Information we collect automatically:“Cookies” Information. When you use the Company Service, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your computer. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Company Service. Please review your web browser “Help” file to learn the proper way to modify your cookie settings. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies from the Company Service, you may not be able to utilize the features of the Company Service to their fullest potential.Browser and Device Information. When you use the Company Service or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain internet, electronic activity, and other information from your web browser or device by using different types of technology, including standard log files, “clear gifs” or “web beacons.” This “automatically collected” information may include Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), device address and device identifiers, web browser and/or device type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after the Company Service, the pages you view on the Company Service, and the dates and times that you visit the Company Service.Widget Information. Other websites may integrate Kodiak’s widgets (such as LinkedIn, Twitter and others). When you visit a site with a Kodiak widget embedded, we may receive certain information, including information about the web page you visited, your IP address, and other information about your device. Kodiak and the widget can recognize you across websites containing Kodiak’s widgets, and the widget may be used to show personalized content or advertising. We know when you interact with a widget, and websites containing the widgets may receive this information.
• Information from Other Sources: We may also combine information we receive from other sources with information we have about you for purposes described in this Privacy Policy.

We may de-identify or anonymize the Personal Information described above. De-identified or anonymized information is not subject to this Privacy Policy except where applicable law applies to anonymized information.

The Ways We Use Information:

We use the Personal Information to develop, operate, maintain, enhance, and provide all of the features and services found on the Company Service now and in the future, including the following:

• To contact you for administrative purposes; for customer service purposes; to address intellectual property infringement, rights of privacy, fraud, or defamation issues; or to respond to trust and safety issues that may arise.
• For compliance purposes, including enforcement of the Terms or other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency.
• To evaluate feedback and for hiring and recruiting.
• To understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the way the Company Service works and looks, and to create new features and functionality.
• To personalize our services, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you use the Company Service; provide customized third-party advertisements, content, and information; monitor and analyze the effectiveness of the Company Service and third-party marketing activities; monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.
• To send messages, including promotional messages, about Kodiak, the Company Service, and the activities of third parties we work with. You have the ability to opt-out of receiving such communications through links provided in the messages.
• We will use information that you provide or that we collect for other purposes for which we provide specific notice at the time the information is collected.

When We Disclose Information:

We are committed to maintaining your trust, and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share the information we collect.

• Authorized third-party vendors. We may share the information you provide directly, the information we collect automatically, and information from other services with third-party vendors that provide services to us for a variety of business purposes, such as email deployment, security and performance monitoring, maintaining or servicing accounts, verifying customer information, research, data hosting, auditing, and data processing.
• Corporate affiliates and business transactions. We may share the information you provide directly, the information we collect automatically, and information from other services with our corporate affiliates or in connection with a substantial corporate transaction, such as the sale of a website, a merger, consolidation, asset sale, initial public offering, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
• Legal purposes. We may disclose the information you provide directly, the information we collect automatically, and information from other sources to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process, law enforcement requests, legal claims or government inquiries, and to protect and defend the rights, interests, safety, and security of Kodiak, our affiliates, users, or the public.
• With your consent. We may share Personal Information for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or pursuant to your consent.

If you access third-party services through the Company Service, these third-party services may be able to collect information about you, including information about your use of the Company Service or their third-party services, in accordance with their own privacy policies.

Individuals located in countries and regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from federal U.S. law should review the supplement below, which provides additional disclosures specific to those jurisdictions.

Your Choices:

You may decline to share certain Personal Information with us, in which case Kodiak may not be able to provide to you some or all of the features and functionality found on the Company Service. Please note that once you have shared information with others through the Company Service, it may be re-shared by the recipients, and your subsequent modification or removal of that information will not necessarily affect all copies previously propagated by others.

Data Retention:

We retain data for as long as we deem necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our rights and agreements. Where possible (and subject to the foregoing), we use reasonable efforts to respond promptly to requests to remove user data, but we do not delete from our records information that is in de-identified and anonymized form, where doing so would undermine the rights of others, archival copies in routine backups, or subject to other exemptions under applicable law.

Third-Party Services:

The Company Service contains links to websites and services provided by third parties. Any Personally Information you provide on third-party sites or services is provided directly to that third party and is subject to that third party’s policies, if any, governing privacy and security. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of third-party sites or services to which links are displayed on the Company Service. We encourage you to learn about third parties’ privacy and security policies before providing them with Personal Information.

Do-Not-Track Signals and Similar Mechanisms. Some web browsers transmit “do-not-track” signals to websites. Because of differences in how web browsers incorporate and activate this feature, it is not always clear whether users intend for these signals to be transmitted, or whether they even are aware of them. We currently do not take action in response to these signals.

Data Security:

Kodiak employs certain physical and technical safeguards designed to improve the integrity and security of your Personal Information, some of which are described in further detail below. Nevertheless, no physical or technical system, transmission, or storage mechanism is 100% secure or immune from outages, losses, attacks, and human error. Therefore, we cannot ensure or warrant that information you transmit to the Company will not be lost or compromised.

Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy:

Please revisit this page periodically to stay aware of any changes to this Privacy Policy, which may be revised from time to time.