Maya

Privacy Policy

The short version

MAYA is free. We do not sell anything about you, and there are no ads.

To work, MAYA keeps what you put into it: your Google account, the pictures you upload, the photograph of the face you are designing for, what you say out loud during a consultation, and the garments MAYA renders. All of it lives in Mana Siyo's own Google Cloud project.

Two things leave your account, and only because you chose it. A garment you heart appears on the community wall, where every signed in person can see it next to your first name. A project you share by link can be opened and copied by whoever holds that link.

Delete a project and it goes, along with its wall posts and its share copies.

What MAYA collects

Your account. When you sign in with Google, MAYA receives your email address, your name and your profile picture from Google. It never sees your Google password.

Pictures you bring. Inspiration images you upload, fabric photographs, and pictures you import from a link or from Pinterest.

The face photograph. MAYA lets you attach a photograph of the person a garment is for, so the renders show that person rather than a stranger. If you are a designer uploading a client's photograph, you are responsible for having that person's permission first. We treat these photographs as the most sensitive thing in the system. They are used only to render the garments you ask for: MAYA does not run facial recognition, does not create or keep any scan of face geometry or other biometric identifier, does not use a photograph to identify anyone, and never sells a photograph or shares it for advertising. Replace or remove the photograph, or delete your account, and it is deleted from the system.

Measurements. Height, inseam and other body measurements you type in, when you choose to add them.

What you say. If you use the microphone, the recording is sent to OpenAI to be turned into text, and the text is kept with your project. The audio itself is not stored by MAYA.

Your work. Projects, the cards on your board, notes, the garments MAYA renders, and which ones you hearted.

Submissions. If you submit a design to the atelier, the summary and the pictures are filed to Mana Siyo so the garment can actually be made.

Technical records. Ordinary server logs, which include the email address of whoever made a request, kept so faults can be diagnosed and abuse stopped.

Analytics. MAYA uses Google Analytics to count visits. It sets cookies and tells us how many people used the site, not who you are.

What is public, and what is not

Your projects are private to your account by default.

The community wall. When you heart a garment MAYA generated, that picture is published to the wall, where anyone signed in to MAYA can see it, along with your first name and the garment's one line description. Uploaded photographs, fabric pictures and face photographs are never published there. Take the heart away and the post comes down.

Sharing a project. When you press share on a project, MAYA makes a link and copies that project's pictures into it. Anyone with the link can open it and save their own copy. Their copy is theirs; yours stays yours, and changing or deleting one never touches the other. Delete the project and the link stops working.

Who else sees your data

MAYA is small and uses a few outside services. None of them are given your data to use for their own purposes.

Google. Sign in, and the hosting, database and storage that MAYA runs on, inside Mana Siyo's own Google Cloud project in the United States.

OpenAI. OpenAI does MAYA's thinking. What you write and what you say in a consultation, the transcript of your voice, the measurements you add, your reference pictures, fabric photographs and the face photograph are sent to OpenAI's API to be understood, and the garment renders are generated there too. Voice recordings are sent there to be transcribed. OpenAI states that data sent through their API is not used to train their models unless the account opts in, and MAYA has not.

Google AI. Some fabric imagery may be analyzed or visualized with Google's AI models. Those calls run inside Mana Siyo's own Google Cloud project, and any picture they produce is a generated illustration, labeled as such, never a photograph of real fabric for sale.

AI generated content. Every garment picture MAYA shows you is generated by artificial intelligence unless it is a photograph you uploaded yourself. Generated pictures carry the machine readable provenance marks their models embed, so tools can recognize them as AI made, and MAYA labels its illustrative pictures in the interface. This is our transparency practice under the rules emerging for AI systems, including the EU AI Act and California's AI transparency law.

Pinterest. Only if you connect your Pinterest account. MAYA then reads your boards and the pictures on them so you can choose some, and copies only the pictures you pick. MAYA never posts anything to Pinterest and cannot see your Pinterest password. Disconnect at any time from the same screen, which deletes the connection from our side.

Stripe. Only if you leave a tip. Stripe handles the payment and the card details. MAYA never sees your card number.

Connected business mailboxes and Outbound

Administrators may connect up to two Gmail mailboxes to Mana Siyo's Outbound. With the mailbox owner's authorization, MAYA reads message headers and short previews to match conversations with CRM contacts, and sends an email only after an administrator reviews and confirms it. MAYA does not request your Google password or download attachments for this integration.

Mailbox credentials are encrypted on the server. Recent matched activity, a limited review list of unmatched correspondents, CRM notes and AI suggestions are stored in the administrator's workspace. Connecting a mailbox does not make its messages public. Disconnecting removes MAYA's stored mailbox credential and stops future access; already imported CRM records remain until removed through an account deletion request. You can also revoke access in your Google account.

When an administrator requests a draft or enables hourly CRM updates, relevant saved contact details and short message previews may be processed by the configured OpenAI, Anthropic Claude or Google Gemini API to create summaries and draft suggestions. Automatic provider selection chooses among the configured providers. Unmatched mailbox activity is not sent for these AI summaries. Hunter supplies prospecting results when enabled; Twilio supplies existing business call and message records. MAYA does not use mailbox data for advertising or to train AI models.

Text messages

Scope and sender. This section applies to Mana Siyo's customer inquiry and appointment messaging program, including the callback form at manasiyo.com/design. Mana Siyo Inc. ("Mana Siyo") sends messages from its business number, +1 510-990-9223. Staff use MAYA to manage conversations and may use it to prepare messages.

Information and purpose. We process your name, phone number, inquiry details, messages, SMS consent records and delivery information to respond to your inquiry, coordinate a requested callback, arrange consultations and provide appointment updates.

Your choice. You can opt in by selecting the separate, optional SMS checkbox on our callback form. It is unchecked by default. Providing a phone number for a callback alone does not authorize text messages. SMS consent is not a condition of purchase or of requesting a callback. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. This program does not enroll you in promotional messaging.

Opting out and support. Reply STOP to unsubscribe. You may receive one confirmation of your opt-out; no further messages will be sent under this program unless you opt in again. Reply HELP for assistance, email worldofsiyo@gmail.com, or call +1 510-990-9223. Opting out of SMS does not cancel your appointment or other services.

Mobile information and consent. Mana Siyo does not sell, rent, or share mobile numbers, SMS opt-in records, or messaging consent with third parties, affiliates, or lead generators for their marketing or promotional use. SMS opt-in data and consent are not transferred to another business for its own messaging. Service providers may process this information only as needed to operate and support our services. Wix processes website form submissions, Google Cloud supports MAYA's records, and Twilio processes message transmission and delivery information.

Retention. We retain inquiry and messaging records as needed to provide service, document consent, honor opt-outs and meet applicable recordkeeping obligations. You may request access, correction or deletion using the contact details above. We may retain limited records needed to honor an opt-out or satisfy applicable obligations. See our SMS terms for program conditions.

Where it is kept, and for how long

MAYA project records are stored in Mana Siyo's Google Cloud project in the United States. Service providers also process information as described above, including Wix form submissions and Twilio messaging records.

Projects and their pictures stay until you delete them. Submissions to the atelier are kept as business records of work commissioned. Server logs are kept for a short period for diagnosis. Analytics figures are aggregate and are kept by Google under their own retention settings.

Deleting things

Delete a project from the projects list and MAYA removes the project, its pictures, any wall posts it produced and any share copies made from it. This cannot be undone.

If you want your whole account and everything in it erased, write to us at the address below and we will do it, and confirm when it is done.

If you are a designer and the person in a face photograph asks for it to be removed, tell us and we will remove it, including from any project it was copied into.

Children

MAYA is not intended for anyone under 16, and we do not knowingly keep data about children. If you believe a child's data or photograph is in MAYA, write to us and we will remove it.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, the new version appears here with a new date, and MAYA will say so on screen the next time you sign in.

Contact

Mana Siyo worldofsiyo@gmail.com

Write to us about anything here: a correction, a deletion, a question about what is stored, or a face photograph that should not be in the system.