NLP INVESTMENTS LLC
Effective whole and current as of 1 January 2026.
NLP Investments LLC, 653 W Abbey Way, Layton - 84041-3856, United States (US).
NLPInvest is the working name used across this site for the language research practice operated by the development company named below. This policy explains what this practice does with personal data when you visit a site of NLP Investments LLC, send an enquiry, commission research work or participate in a research or annotation programme.
NLP Investments LLC, 653 W Abbey Way, Layton - 84041-3856, United States (US). Contact the shop at respond@nlpinvest.lol or by phone at +12248576374. Continue reading to understand exactly what we gather, why we gather it and what choices sit in your hands.
NLP Investments LLC is a limited liability company active in computer integrated systems design and professional, scientific and technical services. Its research practice, released under the developer name NLPInvest, works on natural language processing, text analytics and the construction of corpora used for language research. This privacy policy describes the personal data practices that apply through every one of those activities when the company interacts with a person in a private role.
We designed the policy as a plain language document. Where a technical term is unavoidable it appears next to the everyday meaning, and every claim in the document is intended to reflect what the practice actually does rather than an ideal version of it. If a sentence reads like boilerplate with no behaviour behind it, contact us and we will correct the document along with the practice it describes.
Back to contentsThis policy applies to personal data that we obtain when you use the public website of NLPInvest, subscribe to a mailing list, submit an enquiry form, request a proposal, commission a research project, participate as a research partner or work on an annotation task under an agreement with the company. It applies to data collected across the company regardless of the device or browser you use.
Personal data is information that identifies a living person or that, combined with other held information, could identify that person. A business phone number that belongs to an individual and reveals something about that individual counts as personal data under this policy even when it is recorded against a company name. Aggregate figures that cannot return to a single person fall outside the definition and may be used freely.
Back to contentsThe data controller is the legal entity that decides why and how personal data is processed. For the materials published under the developer name NLPInvest, the data controller is NLP Investments LLC acting from its principal place of business at 653 W Abbey Way, Layton - 84041-3856 in the United States of America. The company is commonly referenced on project materials under the short trading name NLPInvest for convenience, and both names refer to the same responsible organisation for the purpose of this policy.
Questions about the identity of the controller should be addressed in writing before any engagement begins so that a record lives in the project file from the first day. Our response to a privacy request will always name the entity handling that request and the address from which it acts.
Back to contentsThe categories below describe ordinary information gathered as people work with the practice. One person commonly appears in more than one category, and a record is then treated once under the rules of the strictest relevant category.
We do not set out to collect special categories of data such as health, ethnicity or religious belief through this site. If such content reaches us inside documents you provide for a research task, it is handled under the research clause below and under the specific agreement attached to the task.
Back to contentsPersonal data reaches the practice through four ordinary routes. First, directly from you when you fill in the contact form, write a message, call the shop or send documents. Second, from your own organisation when a colleague introduces you as the contact for a project. Third, automatically from your device and browser when you load the website, through hosting and analytics signals. Fourth, from a public professional network when you have advertised your role there and a member of the shop contacts you about research that matches your stated work.
Where data arrives from a third party, we expect that party to have authority to share it with us and to mention that it is being sent. If you believe a reference concerned you without proper authority, notify respond@nlpinvest.lol and we will review whether the collection should have happened.
Back to contentsPersonal data is used for the purposes described below and for no other purpose unless a new purpose is clearly flagged to you before it begins. The primary purpose is to respond to enquiries and to scope, deliver and settle commissioned research and annotation work. Secondary purposes include keeping the website working correctly, understanding which fields of research interest readers, meeting legal obligations and protecting the rights of the company.
We use identity and contact details to communicate about an engagement, financial records to issue invoices and reconcile payments, communication history to keep a project continuous across staff and time zones, research material only for the task for which it was given and usage signals to keep the site safe and legible. Material provided for research is never used to enrich advertising profiles and never sold to a third party for its own purposes.
Back to contentsFor individuals in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or other jurisdictions that recognise defined bases of processing, the shop relies on the legal grounds set out below. For a given activity more than one ground may apply, and we use the one that best reflects the practical relationship.
You may withdraw consent at any time without affecting work already delivered, since a consent-based activity and a contracted one are kept distinct in the records.
Back to contentsLanguage research frequently processes documents that mention people. When a client supplies a corpus that includes personal references, we treat that material under this policy and under the written agreement for the task, and whichever rule is stricter governs the detail. Names and contact particulars inside supplied documents are not used to contact the people mentioned and are not published.
Annotation work is treated as confidential to the client. We apply access controls so only the staff and vetted contractors who need the material see it, we avoid using personal references in any published example without prior permission and we report to clients the extent of personal data their material contained where that is practical. On completion, material is returned or destroyed according to the agreement and the retention rules of this policy.
Back to contentsSome projects make use of hosted analysis environments where text is processed away from the machines we own. Before any material leaves a client environment we require the processor to maintain security consistent with professional standards and to let the client inspect the arrangement. Text that reaches an analysis tool is limited to what the task needs and is never kept in that tool to train a general public model.
The same respect governs the internal tools of the shop. Internal notes are written with the smallest personal tree that carries meaning, access to project tools is logged and revoked when a person leaves the team, and shared links to documents expire rather than remaining open forever.
Back to contentsThe practice is based in the United States and its hosting and tools may be located there or in other countries, which means personal data may leave the country where you sit. Where transfer law of a jurisdiction you inhabit requires a recognised safeguard, we rely on the appropriate safeguard framework where the receiver is certified, or on standard contractual terms approved by the relevant authority, or on your informed consent where that is the suitable route for occasional professional correspondence.
We cannot claim that every country through which a message travels offers the same legal protections as your own, but we bind every provider by written instruction to apply protective measures and we never route material through a jurisdiction solely to weaken the standard of care.
Back to contentsRecords are kept only as long as they still serve the purpose for which they were collected or as long as a legal or tax rule requires. Contact correspondence is kept until a project closes and then for a reasonable period to answer any later query about the work. Invoicing and financial records are kept for the period required by tax law, commonly seven years from the relevant tax event. Website logs are kept for a short operational period and then reduced or removed.
When a retention period ends, the material is deleted or irreversibly anonymised so that it can no longer identify a person. We review documented retention periods at least yearly and shorten them wherever the law allows, because a data shelf that simply grows is neither respectful of people nor useful to the shop.
Back to contentsProtection of personal data rests on everyday practice more than on a single ornament. We limit access to personal data to people and contractors who need it, we keep separate credentials for different clients, we encrypt material in transit wherever the channel permits it and we review who can still reach a file when a role changes. Backups of project material are kept separate from the working copy and are covered by the same confidentiality.
No security is perfect, and we do not claim that it is. If an incident does compromise personal data, we follow a response plan that contains the effect, records what occurred, notifies affected parties where the law or the nature of the risk requires it and reviews the controls that let the incident happen. Disclosure without hideout is the rule that keeps a research practice honest.
Back to contentsThis site and the research services it describes are directed at professional and adult audiences and are not designed to collect information from children. We do not knowingly request, hold or store personal data from a child under the age of thirteen in the United States or under the local age of digital consent where a child resides elsewhere.
If you believe that information from a child has reached us through a forwarded document or a mistaken form submission, contact respond@nlpinvest.lol and we will remove the material promptly after a reasonable check confirms the position without guesswork.
Back to contentsDepending on where you live you may hold rights over the personal data we process about you. These commonly include a right to access a copy, a right to ask for correction of errors, a right to request deletion where no overriding ground stands, a right to restrict processing, a right to object to legitimate interest processing and, where transfer law recognises it, a right to a portable copy in a structured format.
To exercise any right, send a clear request to respond@nlpinvest.lol naming the concern; the shop responds within the period your law allows, usually within one month. We may ask a small question to confirm you are the person the record concerns, and we will not charge for a reasonable first request. If you are unhappy with the reply you may complain, in the United States, with the competent authority of your region or, where relevant to you, with the data protection authority aligned to your residence.
Back to contentsThe shop may occasionally send research news or an announcement of an open intake. Communications of this kind are sent only to people who have asked for them, and every message carries an easy way to stop future messages without hiding the option behind several steps. We never sell a mailing list and never share it with advertisers.
A message you stop will not return on its own, though it is fair to mention that work related mail about an active project continues for the life of that engagement, since contractual correspondence and promotional mail are kept as separate streams in our records.
Back to contentsThis site may link to professional, academic or regulatory pages that sit outside the control of NLP Investments LLC. Once you leave this site, the privacy practice of the destination governs what happens there, and this policy no longer applies to your movements beyond the boundary of our own pages.
We choose external links with care but cannot inspect every destination at every later moment. If an offset site you reached from us behaves badly, tell us the link and we will review whether it should stay.
Back to contentsThis policy will change as the practice, the law or the tools in use change. When a material revision lands, the updated version replaces this page and the date at the top moves, but the principles in this document keep a constant spine: collecting only what serves the work, telling the truth about handling and answering honestly when asked.
Substantial changes affecting a current engagement are communicated through the project line rather than buried in a page update, so people who are actively working with the shop hear about the shift in a channel they actually read.
Back to contentsPrivacy questions, correction and deletion requests and incident reports may be sent to respond@nlpinvest.lol or raised by phone at +12248576374. Written correspondence may also be posted to NLP Investments LLC, 653 W Abbey Way, Layton - 84041-3856, United States (US). Please say whether a matter is urgent so an appropriate person answers first.
The person responsible for privacy is reached through the same address, and a request marked without delay reaches the right desk because every route above resolves to the research team that owns these records rather than to an unattended box.
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