Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 4th, 2025

1. Introduction
Olea is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose information when you use our AI-powered platform designed to help employees address workplace issues.

2. Information We Collect

  • Employee Information: We collect personal information such as name and email address to create and manage user accounts and enable communication within Olea.
  • Employee Interactions: Olea facilitates text and phone conversations with an AI to help employees address workplace issues. These interactions occur through Olea's web app and, in some cases, via the Olea Slack app. The AI analyzes the text for keywords, severity, sentiment, and patterns.
  • Interaction Metadata: Metadata (e.g., timestamps) is collected to organize employee cases and chronological information.
  • Sentiment Analysis: Olea's Slack app collects employee sentiment data through weekly check-ins.
  • Anonymized Data: We collect and process anonymized data to generate reports for managers and HR. This data may also be used for benchmarking, trend analysis, or AI training.

3. How We Use Your Information

  • To Provide the Olea Service: We use your information to facilitate confidential conversations, provide insights, and help address workplace issues.
  • To Generate Reports and Insights: Anonymized data is used to create reports on employee satisfaction, engagement, and productivity for managers and HR.
  • To Improve Olea: We may use aggregated and anonymized data to analyze and improve the platform's functionality.

4. Data Confidentiality and Anonymity

  • Confidential Conversations: Olea provides a safe space for employees to discuss workplace issues. Conversations with the AI agent in Olea’s web app are confidential; personal data and conversation content are not shared with the organization. Employees can share an AI-generated case summary. Slack's privacy policy applies to interactions via the Olea Slack app.
  • Anonymized Reporting: Trends and insights shared with managers and HR are anonymized to protect employee privacy.


5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

  • With Employee Consent: Employees control whether to share AI-generated case summaries with coworkers, managers, or HR.
  • Service Providers: We share data with third-party service providers that help us provide and maintain Olea (e.g., hosting, data analysis, AI solutions). These providers protect your data.
  • Legal Compliance: We may disclose information if required by law.

6. Data Security
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Data is encrypted with AES 256 in transit (TLS 1.2+) and at rest.

7. Data Retention
We retain personal information as long as necessary to provide the Olea service and as required by applicable laws.

8. Data Breach Notification Procedures
If a data breach is likely to result in a high risk to individuals' rights and freedoms, Olea will notify the appropriate supervisory authority within 72 hours of awareness, as required by GDPR. Affected users will be notified without undue delay. Notifications will include the breach's nature, likely consequences, and measures taken to address it and mitigate harm. Olea will maintain a record of all data breaches.

9. Your Rights
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have rights to access, correct, or delete your personal information. For data protection inquiries, contact us through the email hello@olea.work.

10. GDPR Compliance
Olea complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ensuring data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently, and kept secure. Data is stored within European borders.

11. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy. We will notify you of significant changes one month in advance via the email associated with your Olea account.

12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at hello@olea.work.