Privacy Policy
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- Visit our website at https://www.bullethq.ie, or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
- Use the Bullet app on the web (app.bullethq.ie) or on your phone
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Summary of key points
Table of contents
- 1. What information do we collect?
- 2. How we use artificial intelligence
- 3. How do we process your information?
- 4. What legal bases do we rely on to process your information?
- 5. When and with whom do we share your personal information?
- 6. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
- 7. Is your information transferred internationally?
- 8. How long do we keep your information?
- 9. How do we keep your information safe?
- 10. Do we collect information from minors?
- 11. What are your privacy rights?
- 12. Controls for Do-Not-Track features
- 13. Do we make updates to this notice?
- 14. How can you contact us about this notice?
- 15. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?
1. What information do we collect?
Personal information you disclose to us
In Short: We collect personal information that you provide to us.
- names, email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses (your business address, and your home address if you use it for mileage claims)
- usernames and passwords
- your business details: company name, CRO number, VAT number, tax registrations and tax returns
- your financial records: invoices, bills, receipts, bank transactions, payments and the documents you upload or email to Bullet
- payroll details for you and your employees: names, PPS numbers, pay, tax credits, pension and expense claims
- details of your clients and suppliers that you add, such as names, email addresses and what you invoice them
- debit/credit card details (handled by our payment processor, see section 5)
- voice recordings, if you use the microphone to ask Bullet a question (see “How we use artificial intelligence”)
- messages you send our support team, including any screen recording you choose to make in the support chat
- job notes you record: the audio of a meeting you choose to record is sent in pieces to be written up, and the write-up is kept on that client’s job notes
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics, is collected automatically when you visit our Services.
- Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called ‘crash dumps’ ), and hardware settings).
Information we receive from your Google account
In Short: You can sign in with Google, and you can connect your Gmail. Bullet reads only the emails needed for the features you use, keeps no copy of your mailbox, and you can disconnect at any time.
Signing in with Google. If you sign in with Google, Google gives us your name, email address and profile picture (openid, email and profile). We use them to create your account and show who is signed in.
Connecting your Gmail. Connecting Gmail is optional. Google shows you exactly what Bullet is asking for, and you choose whether to allow it. Bullet asks for:
- Permission to read your Gmail (gmail.readonly), when you connect Gmail.
- Permission to send email for you (gmail.send), only the first time you choose to send an email from your own address.
- Permission to see your Google Calendar events (calendar.events.readonly), when you turn on meeting reminders.
- Permission to add events to your Google Calendar (calendar.events), only the first time you choose to add a meeting to your calendar.
Bullet cannot delete or change anything in your mailbox, never changes or deletes your existing calendar events, and cannot access your Google Drive or Contacts.
What we use it for. We use your Gmail only for these features:
- Finding your paperwork. We search for emails and attachments that look like invoices, bills, receipts and statements, read the details (supplier, date, amount, VAT), and show you what we found. Nothing is added to your accounts unless you choose it.
- Chasing payments. When you ask about a client, we look at the emails between you and that client, for example to show when you last chased an unpaid invoice.
- Answering your questions in the Ask box. When you ask about a client or supplier already in your books, Bullet reads the subject, date and start of your emails with them from the last 2 years, to answer.
- Preparing a proposal. Bullet reads your emails with that client, so the proposal matches what you discussed.
- Bullet Personal. If you connect Gmail in Bullet Personal, Bullet finds the receipts you were emailed and the emails from revenue.ie in that tax year, for your personal tax return. For the revenue.ie emails it reads only the sender, subject and date.
- Reviewing your projects. For each project, Bullet reads the emails between you and that client, only from 45 days before the project starts until 60 days after it finishes, to tell you how the project went, what went wrong and what to change next time. Bullet does this by itself once a day after you connect Gmail. You can stop it for any client, or disconnect Gmail, at any time.
- Sending emails. When you press Send on an email in Bullet (a proposal, an invoice, a payment reminder or a reply that Bullet wrote for you), Bullet sends that one email from your own address to the one address shown. You see the whole email first. Bullet never sends anything you have not seen, never in bulk and never on its own.
Every search is built by Bullet’s servers for one of these purposes. Bullet never scans your whole mailbox for any other reason.
Artificial intelligence. Anthropic reads the text of the emails needed to write your project reviews, prepare your proposals and answer your questions in the Ask box. To read the details of a receipt or invoice, Bullet uses Amazon Textract. These providers act only on our instructions, do not keep the text to use for themselves, and do not use it to train their AI models.
What we store. We store an encrypted access token so the connection keeps working, the email address of the mailbox you connected, the documents and details you choose to add to your accounts, and the short project review we write for you (numbers and short summaries). We do not keep a copy of your emails.
Who sees it. No one at Bullet reads your email. Our staff look at Gmail data only if you ask us to help you with something, to investigate a security problem, or where the law requires it. Content from your Gmail is never included in our session recordings, analytics or advertising tools. We do not sell it, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not use it to train generalised artificial intelligence or machine learning models, ours or anyone else’s.
Turning it off. You can disconnect Gmail at any time in Bullet (Settings, Connected emails), or remove Bullet’s access in your Google account at myaccount.google.com/permissions. When you do, we delete the stored token and stop reading your mailbox straight away. Records you chose to add to your accounts stay, because they are part of your accounting records. You can also ask us to delete the project reviews.
Google Calendar. If you turn on meeting reminders, Bullet reads the times, titles, places, video links and guests of the events on your main calendar for the next 2 weeks. It never reads the event description or attachments. Bullet uses them to remind you to record your notes from a meeting with a client, to ask which client a call was with, and to answer your questions about your meetings. If you choose to add a meeting to your calendar (for example a call with a client), Bullet shows you the meeting first and adds that one event only when you press Add. Bullet never changes or deletes your other events and keeps no copy of your calendar. We do not sell this information, we do not use it for advertising, and we do not use it to train general AI models.
Google’s rules. Bullet’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs to any other app will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Information about other people that you put into Bullet
When you add your employees, clients or suppliers to Bullet, or run payroll, Bullet processes their information on your behalf, so you can run your business. For that information, you are the controller and we are your processor. We use it only to provide the Services to you.
2. How we use artificial intelligence
In Short: Some Bullet features use AI to answer your questions and write for you. The AI providers we use do not train their models on your data.
- Answering your questions about your business in the Ask box. We send the AI the figures needed to answer, with names, PPS numbers and bank account numbers taken out.
- Understanding what you say when you use the microphone. The recording of your voice is sent to OpenAI to turn it into text. We do not keep the recording.
- Writing and checking proposals, and reading a proposal you upload.
- Reading the emails needed to write your project reviews, prepare your proposals and answer your questions in the Ask box (see “Information we receive from your Google account”).
- Reading receipts, bills and invoices (Amazon Textract).
3. How do we process your information?
In Short: We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
- To facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your account, as well as keep your account in working order.
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your information to provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
- To provide the Gmail features you turn on. Where you connect your Google account, we use your mailbox only for the features described in “Information we receive from your Google account”: finding your paperwork, chasing payments, reviewing your projects, preparing proposals, answering your questions in Ask, finding receipts and Revenue emails for your personal tax return, and sending the emails you choose to send.
- To file and register with Revenue and the CRO for you, where you ask us to.
- To fix problems and improve the Services, using session recordings and usage data.
- To answer your questions with AI, as described in “How we use artificial intelligence”.
- To remind you about your client meetings. Where you connect your Google Calendar or allow the app to read your phone’s calendar, we use your upcoming meetings only to remind you to record your notes, to link a call to the right client, and to add the meetings you choose to your calendar.
4. What legal bases do we rely on to process your information?
In Short: We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e. legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfil our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfil our legitimate business interests.
- Consent. We may process your information if you have given us permission (i.e. consent) to use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time.
- Performance of a Contract. We may process your personal information when we believe it is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations to you, including providing our Services or at your request prior to entering into a contract with you.
- Legal Obligations. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, such as to cooperate with a law enforcement body or regulatory agency, exercise or defend our legal rights, or disclose your information as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
- Legitimate Interests. We may process your information where it is necessary for our legitimate business interests and those interests are not outweighed by your interests and rights. For example: recording how the app is used so we can find and fix problems, keeping the Services secure, and understanding which features are used. You can object to this at any time by contacting us.
- Vital Interests. We may process your information where we believe it is necessary to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of a third party, such as situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person.
- Service providers. We share personal information with third parties that perform services for us and on our behalf, and only to the extent they need it to do so. These providers act on our instructions and are not permitted to use your information for their own purposes. They fall into the following categories:
- Cloud hosting and infrastructure: Amazon Web Services, Europe (Ireland) region, who store and run the Services and our databases; and Vercel, who run the Bullet web app in their Dublin (Ireland) region.
- Document reading: Amazon Textract (Amazon Web Services, Europe (Ireland) region), who read the text of receipts, bills and invoices.
- Artificial intelligence: Anthropic (United States) and OpenAI (United States), as described in ‘How we use artificial intelligence’.
- Open banking: our open banking provider, who connects your bank account when you choose to, and sends us your transactions.
- Maps and addresses: Google Maps Platform, who find addresses and work out distances for mileage claims. We send the address or places you type.
- Profile pictures: Gravatar (Automattic), to show the picture linked to an email address. We send a scrambled code made from the email address, never the address itself.
- Payment processing, who take payment for your subscription. Card details are handled by the payment processor.
- Email delivery, who send the emails Bullet sends for you, such as invoices and reminders.
- Customer support, session recordings and product analytics: our own support system, which runs on our cloud providers, holds your support messages, screen recordings you make in the support chat, session recordings and test recordings.
- Website analytics, as described in ‘Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?’ below.
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Legal obligations and safety. We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, a governmental request, a judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process, or where disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, your safety or the safety of others, or to investigate fraud.
Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice: https://www.bullethq.ie/cookie-policy/.
Google Analytics
We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyse the use of the Services. The Google Analytics Advertising Features that we may use include: Google Analytics Demographics and Interests Reporting. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Services, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. You can opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features through Ads Settings and Ad Settings for mobile apps. Other opt out means include http://optout.networkadvertising.org/ and http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page.
7. Is your information transferred internationally?
In Short: We may transfer, store, and process your information in countries other than your own.
8. How long do we keep your information?
In Short: We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required by law.
- Revenue: section 886 of the Taxes Consolidation Act 1997 requires records to be kept for six years after the transactions they relate to, and for longer if Revenue starts an inquiry, audit, claim or appeal within that time, until it is finished.
- Companies Registration Office: section 285 of the Companies Act 2014 requires a company to keep its accounting records for at least six years after the end of the financial year they relate to.
9. How do we keep your information safe?
In Short: We aim to protect your personal information through a system of organisational and technical security measures.
10. Do we collect information from minors?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
11. What are your privacy rights?
In Short: In some regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom (UK), and Switzerland, you have rights that allow you greater access to and control over your personal information. You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time, depending on your country, province, or state of residence.
However, please note that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
Account Information
If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate your account, you can:
- Contact us using the contact information provided.
12. Controls for Do-Not-Track features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (‘DNT’) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognising and implementing DNT signals has been finalised. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.
13. Do we make updates to this notice?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
14. How can you contact us about this notice?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at help@bullethq.com or contact us by post at:
15. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you?
You have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law. We keep accounting and tax records for six years after the end of the financial year, as the Companies Act 2014 and Revenue require, so we cannot delete those before then. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please email us a data subject access request.
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