Privacy & Data Policy

Last updated: 29 July 2026 · Effective immediately upon posting

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") describes how Impulsion Systems, Inc. ("Impulsion," "we," "us," or "our"), the company that operates the impulsion.io website and services, collects, uses, discloses, retains, and safeguards information in connection with our websites, applications, and related services (collectively, the "Services"). References to "Impulsion" in this Policy mean Impulsion Systems, Inc.; impulsion.io is our website and brand and is not itself a legal entity. By accessing or using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to the practices described in this Policy. If you do not agree, please discontinue use of the Services. This Policy is incorporated into and subject to our Terms of Service.

1. Scope & Acceptance

This Policy applies to information processed through our Services, whether you interact with us as a prospective customer, an account holder, an authorized user, a visitor, or otherwise. It does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including independent websites or services that may be linked to or integrated with the Services. Your continued use of the Services following any update to this Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised terms.

2. Information We Collect

We collect information in a number of categories, depending on how you interact with the Services. The specific information collected will vary based on the nature of your relationship with us and your use of particular features.

(a) Information you provide

  • Identifiers and contact details, such as your name, business name, email address, telephone number, and mailing or business address.
  • Account and profile information, including credentials, preferences, role, and settings you configure.
  • Business and operational information you elect to provide about your organization, programs, services, scheduling, personnel, and operations.
  • Communications, including the contents of messages, inquiries, applications, survey responses, support requests, and other correspondence.
  • Commercial information, including records of products or services obtained or considered, and related preferences.

(b) Information collected automatically

  • Device and technical data, such as IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, and language settings.
  • Usage data, such as pages viewed, features used, referring and exit pages, timestamps, and interaction events.
  • Approximate location inferred from network information.

(c) Information from third parties

We may receive information about you from third-party sources, including service providers, partners, advertising and analytics platforms, and publicly available sources, which we may combine with information we already hold.

3. How We Collect Information

We collect information directly from you when you submit it to us; automatically through cookies, pixels, log files, and similar technologies as you interact with the Services; and from third parties acting on our behalf or with whom you have a relationship. Where you provide information about other individuals, you represent that you have the authority and any necessary consents to do so.

4. How We Use Information

We use the information we collect for purposes including, without limitation: to provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Services; to create and administer accounts; to process and fulfill requests and transactions; to personalize and develop features; to communicate with you, including service, transactional, administrative, and (where permitted) marketing communications; to provide customer support; to conduct research, analytics, and product development; to monitor, secure, and protect the integrity of the Services; to detect, prevent, and address fraud, abuse, security incidents, and unlawful activity; to comply with legal obligations and enforce our agreements; and for any other purpose disclosed to you at the point of collection or to which you consent.

5. SMS / Text Messaging

If you provide your mobile telephone number and opt in, Impulsion may send you recurring automated SMS text messages relating to your application, onboarding, account, business meeting reminders, scheduling confirmations, account updates, and (where you separately consent) other updates relating to the Services.

To deliver these messages we collect and process your mobile telephone number, your opt-in status, and message-delivery records; we use this information solely to send and manage the text messages you requested.

  • Message frequency varies (for example, up to approximately 6 messages per month).
  • Message and data rates may apply.
  • You can opt out at any time by replying STOP, and you can get help by replying HELP or by emailing privacy@impulsion.io.
  • Your consent to receive text messages is not a condition of any purchase or of using the Services.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. We do not sell your mobile telephone number or your SMS opt-in data, and we do not share that information with third parties or affiliates for their own marketing.

6. Legal Bases for Processing

Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing (such as under the EU/UK GDPR), we rely on one or more of the following: your consent; the performance of a contract with you; compliance with a legal obligation; the protection of vital interests; and our legitimate interests in operating, securing, and improving the Services, provided such interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. You may withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

7. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

We and our service providers use cookies, web beacons, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to operate the Services, remember preferences, analyze performance and usage, and support measurement and marketing. You may manage certain technologies through your browser or device settings; disabling them may affect the availability or functionality of certain features. Where required, we obtain consent for non-essential technologies.

8. Service Providers & Sub-Processors

We engage carefully selected third-party service providers and sub-processors to perform functions on our behalf and to help us deliver the Services. These providers act on our instructions under contractual obligations of confidentiality and data protection, and are permitted to process information only as necessary to provide their services to us. The categories of such providers include, without limitation:

  • cloud infrastructure, hosting, storage, and security providers;
  • customer-relationship, messaging, scheduling, and communications platforms;
  • payment processing and billing providers;
  • secure financial-data connectivity providers (see Section 10);
  • analytics, performance-measurement, and advertising providers;
  • artificial-intelligence and data-processing providers used to deliver certain features; and
  • professional, administrative, and operational service providers.

We may provide a more specific description of relevant providers upon a verifiable request, subject to applicable law and our confidentiality obligations.

9. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose information: to the service providers and sub-processors described above; to your organization or authorized administrators where you access the Services in connection with an organizational account; in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction; to comply with applicable law, legal process, or governmental request, or to respond to lawful requests by public authorities; to enforce our terms and protect the rights, property, and safety of Impulsion, our users, or others; and with your direction or consent.

We do not sell your personal information, and we do not "share" it for cross-context behavioral advertising as those terms are defined under applicable law, except as you may otherwise be notified and provided an opportunity to opt out. As described in Section 5, no mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

10. Financial Account Information

Certain features may allow you to connect a financial account through a secure, independent third-party financial-data connectivity provider. When you use such features, your bank login credentials are entered into and handled by that provider and are not collected, seen, or stored by us. We receive only the limited, permissioned information necessary to deliver the feature (such as account balances and transaction records) and we do not store full bank account numbers, full payment card numbers, or government identification numbers. Your use of such connectivity is also subject to the third-party provider's own terms and privacy policy, which are presented to you during the connection process.

11. Data Security

We maintain administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include encryption of data in transit and at rest, access controls and authentication, least-privilege practices, monitoring, and periodic review. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials and for activity under your account.

12. International Transfers

We may process and store information in countries other than the one in which you reside, which may have data-protection laws different from those of your jurisdiction. Where required, we implement appropriate safeguards for such transfers, including recognized contractual mechanisms.

13. Data Retention

We retain information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Policy, to provide the Services, to comply with our legal, regulatory, accounting, and reporting obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. Retention periods vary depending on the type of information and the context. When information is no longer required, we take reasonable steps to delete, de-identify, or anonymize it.

14. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights regarding your personal information, which may include the right to: access or obtain a copy of your information; request correction of inaccurate information; request deletion; restrict or object to certain processing; request portability; withdraw consent; and not be subject to unlawful discrimination for exercising your rights. Residents of certain jurisdictions (including, where applicable, California under the CCPA/CPRA and individuals in the EU/UK under the GDPR) may have additional or specific rights. To exercise any available right, please contact us using the details in Section 19. We will respond consistent with applicable law and may need to verify your identity before fulfilling a request. You may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

How to request deletion of your data. To request deletion of personal information we hold about you — including information you submitted through a Facebook or Instagram lead form, or messages you sent to a riding school on Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp — email privacy@impulsion.io with the subject line "Data Deletion Request" and the name, email address, and/or telephone number you provided. We will verify your request and delete the corresponding personal information within 30 days, and confirm by email. This option is available to everyone whose personal information we hold, regardless of location, at no charge. Step-by-step instructions are also published at impulsion.io/data-deletion.

15. Children's Privacy

The Services are intended for businesses and individuals who are at least the age of majority in their jurisdiction and are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected such information without appropriate consent, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

16. Meta Platform Data (Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp)

The Services may contain links to, or integrations with, third-party websites and services that we do not control. This Policy does not apply to those third parties, and we are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third party you interact with.

Impulsion is a Meta Tech Provider. Riding schools that use our Services may connect their own Facebook Page, Instagram professional account, WhatsApp Business account and Meta ad account to Impulsion so that we can operate their advertising and customer messaging on their behalf. This section explains what we receive from Meta, why, and what we do with it.

16.1 How the connection is made

A riding school connects its Meta business assets using Facebook Login for Business, from Settings → Connections inside the platform. The account owner chooses precisely which Page, Instagram account and ad account to share. We never ask for, receive, or store a client's Facebook password. We receive only an access token scoped to what that owner granted, which we hold encrypted and use solely to deliver the Services. The owner may revoke it at any time from inside Impulsion or from Facebook → Settings & Privacy → Settings → Apps and Websites.

16.2 What we access, and why

We request only the permissions the Services actually require:

  • Pages access (pages_show_list, pages_read_engagement, pages_manage_metadata) — to let the owner choose which Page to connect, to read that Page's basic information for reporting, and to subscribe the Page so its messages reach the barn's Impulsion inbox.
  • Messaging (pages_messaging, instagram_basic, instagram_manage_messages, whatsapp_business_messaging, whatsapp_business_management) — to receive messages sent to the connected Page, Instagram account or WhatsApp number, and to send the barn's replies from within Impulsion.
  • Advertising (ads_management, ads_read, pages_manage_ads) — to create, edit, pause and optimize advertising campaigns in the ad account the barn connected, and to report spend and results back to the owner.
  • Lead capture (leads_retrieval) — using the Meta Lead Ads API, to retrieve the information individuals submit through a barn's Facebook or Instagram lead forms — typically name, email address, telephone number, and any custom responses — and deliver it into that barn's Impulsion account so they can follow up for the purpose for which the form was submitted, for example to arrange a riding lesson.
  • Account linking (business_management) — to associate the selected Page and ad account with the correct riding school's account, so that one barn's data is never delivered to another.

A riding school that does not use a given channel is not asked for that channel's permissions.

16.3 Information we receive about members of the public

If you are a member of the public who interacted with a riding school that uses Impulsion, we may receive: the contact details you submitted on a Facebook or Instagram instant form; the content of messages you sent to that barn on Messenger, Instagram or WhatsApp, and the barn's replies; and the basic profile information Meta provides with a message — generally your name, your app-scoped identifier and your profile picture.

We process this information as a service provider to the riding school, so that the barn can answer your enquiry and arrange lessons. Both Meta and the advertiser whose ad generated the lead act as controllers of that information; the advertiser is responsible for the consent and disclosures presented on its lead form.

16.4 What we do not do

  • We do not sell or rent personal information obtained through Meta.
  • We do not use Meta Platform Data for our own advertising, and we do not build cross-client profiles or audiences from it.
  • We do not share or combine one riding school's Meta data with any other client's.
  • We do not use Meta Platform Data to train general-purpose artificial-intelligence models.

16.5 Messaging conduct and opt-out

Messages sent through Impulsion follow Meta's Platform Terms and the Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp policies, including the permitted customer-service response window. Anyone may opt out at any time by replying STOP inside the conversation itself, on any channel; the opt-out takes effect immediately and is honored across our system. Replying START opts back in. Where our software drafts a reply automatically, a person at the riding school reviews and approves it before it is sent.

16.6 Retention and deletion

Meta Platform Data is retained only for as long as the riding school's connection remains active and the data is needed to provide the Services. When a barn disconnects — or when you ask us to delete your information — we delete the associated data within 30 days, except where law requires us to retain a record, and except for the minimal suppression record we keep so that we continue to honor an opt-out.

We also operate a Data Deletion Request Callback at https://api.impulsion.io/api/v1/meta/data-deletion. If you remove Impulsion from your Facebook account, Meta notifies us automatically; we verify that request cryptographically, action it, and return a confirmation code and a status URL you can use to confirm completion. Full instructions are on our Data Deletion Instructions page, or write to privacy@impulsion.io.

16.7 Compliance with Meta's terms

Our handling of Meta Platform Data is governed by the Meta Platform Terms, the Meta Developer Policies and the Lead Generation Terms in addition to this Policy. Where those terms impose an obligation stricter than this Policy in respect of Meta Platform Data, the stricter obligation applies.

17. Do-Not-Track Signals

Some browsers offer a "Do Not Track" setting. Because there is no consistent industry standard for responding to such signals, we do not currently respond to them. We will treat any legally recognized opt-out preference signals in accordance with applicable law.

18. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, technologies, legal requirements, or for other operational reasons. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, where required, provide additional notice. Your continued use of the Services after any update constitutes acceptance of the revised Policy.

19. How to Contact Us

If you have questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Policy or our handling of your information, please contact Impulsion Systems, Inc. at privacy@impulsion.io. Our data protection contact is security@impulsion.io. We will endeavor to respond within a reasonable timeframe and consistent with applicable law.

This Policy is provided for general informational purposes and does not constitute legal advice. © 2026 Impulsion Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.