Privacy Policy

Effective: October 13, 2026

Policy Introduction

This privacy policy is aimed to be understood by the user. Middle Capital LLC, doing business as Applyace ("Apply Ace", "we", "us") collects, uses, and shares information about you when you use our services or when you interact with us or receive communication from us.

Information Provided to Us

• Account Information: Once you create an Applyace account, we require you to provide an email address and password. Your email address may be used by Applyace to send you future emails regarding your account or promotional emails. Moreover, we store your user preferences and settings.
• Content you submit: Content you submit to the services. This may include saved drafts, uploaded videos, and other prompts within the web application.
• Actions you take: We collect information about the actions you take while using the web application. This includes interactions with different services provided within the web application. Moreover, it may include interactions with other users of the web application.
• Transactional Information: We collect information from our payment processor including your name, address, email address, and information about the product or service you are purchasing.
• Other Information: Applyace may collect other information submitted by the user, for example, through a feedback form.

Payments and Automatic Payment Recovery

Stripe processes subscription payments and stores payment credentials. Applyace does not store your full card number or security code. We receive payment-method references, subscription and invoice identifiers, payment amounts and status, and decline information needed to manage checkout, receipts, recurring billing, and payment recovery.

For eligible checkouts with automatic recovery, we record your checkout authorization, its time and disclosure version, your original plan and amount, and the recovery offers and their outcomes. We use this information with Stripe to process the exact recovery sequence you authorized, prevent duplicate purchases, support your account, and resolve billing issues. We retain these transaction and authorization records as needed for billing, dispute resolution, and applicable recordkeeping requirements.

This Privacy Policy describes data processing; it does not itself authorize charges. Automatic recovery is authorized when you complete an eligible checkout under our Terms of Service. Subscription amounts, renewals, and cancellation are described in our Terms of Service and the checkout disclosure. Payment recovery authorization is separate from marketing and SMS consent.

Information Collected Automatically

• Log and usage data: We may log information when you access and use our services. This may include: IP addresses, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information, device settings, mobile carrier, pages visited, links clicked, request URL, and search terms.
• Information collected from cookies: We may receive information from cookies, which are pieces of data that your browser sends back to us when making requests to use our services. We use this information to improve the user experience.
• Location Information: We may receive and process information about your location. We may collect information about the specific location of your device. We may also receive location information from you when you choose to share your location with one of our services.
• Other Information: We may automatically collect information from other applications which positively impact Applyace.

Information Collected From Other Sources

• Linked Services: If you authorize or link one of our linked services, Applyace may receive information from that service as well. For example, if you link your Apply Ace account with another service, that service may send us information.
• Information collected from integrations: We may receive information about the user from third-party integrations. For example, when downloading the Figma plugin to use with Applyace, Applyace may receive information about your Figma account.

Sharing Information

We don't sell your data; however, we may share your data based on the following conditions. We do not sell or share mobile phone numbers, SMS opt-in data, or SMS consent records with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing or promotional purposes. Service providers may process this information on our behalf to deliver messages and handle opt-out requests.

• With your consent: We may share information about you with your consent.
• With linked services: We may share information about you with linked services.
• With our service providers: We may share information with vendors, consultants, and other service providers who need access to such information to carry out work for us.
• To comply with the law: We may share information in response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or regulation.
• In an emergency:We may share information if we believe it's necessary to prevent imminent and serious bodily harm to a person.
• To enforce our policies and rights: We may share information if we believe your actions are inconsistent with our User Agreement or other Applyace policies.
• With our affiliates: We may share information between and among Applyace and any of our parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
• Aggregated or de-identified information: We may share information about you that has been aggregated or anonymized such that it cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

Email and SMS Communications

Applyace (Middle Capital LLC) sends account-related emails and may send marketing emails about your saved job search setup, offers, and discounts.

You can opt out of marketing emails using the unsubscribe link in any marketing email. You may still receive account-related emails needed to provide the service. For help, contact us at contact@applyace.com.

SMS enrollment is optional and requires a separate opt-in. If you opt in, Applyace may send recurring automated marketing and account updates, including offers and job-search reminders, to the number you provide. Providing a phone number, creating an account, or agreeing to payment recovery does not by itself enroll you in SMS.

For SMS, you may receive up to 2 messages per day and 5 per week. Message and data rates may apply. Consent is not a condition of purchase. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help, or contact us at contact@applyace.com.

Your Choices and Controls

• Accessing and Changing Your Information: You can access and update your account information at any time from the user preferences page.
• Deleting Your Account: You may delete your account at any time from the user preferences page. Moreover, you can submit a request through the Contact Us page to process an account deletion. When you delete your account, your profile is no longer visible to other users and is disassociated from content you posted under that account. Please note that once an account is deleted, all information provided with the account will be lost as well.
• Controlling Linked Services' Access to Your Account: You may review the services you have permitted access to your account and revoke access to individual services.
• Controlling the Use of Cookies: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject first- and third-party cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, this may affect some Applyace services.
• Do Not Track: We offer you the choices described in this policy to manage the collection and use of information about you.
• Controlling Promotional Communications: You may opt out of receiving some or all categories of promotional communications directly from the communications platform.
• Controlling Mobile Notifications: With your consent, we may send promotional and non-promotional push notifications or alerts to your mobile device.
• Controlling Location Information: You can control how we use location information inferred from your IP address for content recommendation purposes.

How We Protect Your Information

Middle Capital LLC uses various techniques to ensure your information is protected from loss, theft, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. All information transmitted through the web is through HTTPS. Moreover, we enforce limits on data access by employees.

We store the information we collect for as long as it is necessary for the purpose(s) for which we originally collected it. We may retain certain information for legitimate business purposes or as required by law.

Data Subject and Consumer Information Requests

Requests for a copy of the information Applyace has about your account — including EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") data subject access requests and California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") requests — can be made by emailing: contact@applyace.com

Before continuing with your request, we may ask you to verify your Applyace account and confirm the usage of the account. You may also designate an authorized agent to exercise these rights on your behalf.

International Data Transfers

Middle Capital LLC is based in the United States and we process and store information on servers located in the United States. However, we may store information on servers in other countries if it positively impacts the performance of the services provided.

When transferring data to European servers, we rely on the Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission for such transfers or other transfer mechanisms deemed 'adequate' under applicable laws.

Please direct any inquiries or complaints regarding international data transfers to contact@applyace.com.

EEA Users

Users in the European Economic Area have the right to request access to, the rectification of, or erasure of their data; to data portability in certain circumstances; to request the restriction of processing; to object to processing; and to withdraw consent for processing where they have previously provided consent.

We only collect information about individuals in the EEA where we have a legal basis for doing so. We process the information on the following legal bases:

• You have consented for us to do so for a specific purpose.
• We need to process the information to provide you with the service, operate the services, provide customer support and personalized features, and protect the safety and security of the services.
• We need to process your information to comply with our legal obligations.
• It satisfies a legitimate interest relating to the following: preventing fraud, ensuring network and information security, enforcing our rules and policies, protecting our legal rights and interests, research and development, and personalizing the service.

California Users

Users from California are entitled, under the California Consumer Privacy Act, to additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it.

We collect the following categories of personal information:

• Identifiers: username, email address, phone number, IP address, cookie information.
• Commercial information: transactions you undertake with us.
• Geolocation information: based on your IP address, or more specific information if authorized directly by the user.
• Audiovisual information: provided in the form of pictures, audio, or video content submitted to Applyace.
• Professional or demographic information: only if explicitly provided to us by the user.
• Inferences: made based on the collected data, for better understanding and improvement of the product.

Residents of California have additional rights which include the right to request access to or deletion of your personal information, and information about our data practices, as well as the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.

Children

Children under 13 are not allowed to create an account or otherwise use the Services. Moreover, in the EEA, you must be over the age limit provided by your country to create an account to use our services, or have obtained verifiable consent from your parent or legal guardian.

Policy Changes

We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time. You will notice privacy changes by the effective date at the top of the privacy policy page. If the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may also notify you by sending an email to the email address associated with your account. We encourage you to read or review the privacy policy from time to time.

Contact Us

To send a GDPR data subject request or CCPA consumer request, or if you have other inquiries about your privacy rights, follow the information provided in this Privacy Policy. Any other questions about the Privacy Policy can be directed to: contact@applyace.com