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Effective as of March 26, 2020.
We recognize that your privacy is very important and take it seriously. This Privacy Policy describes PreScouter’s policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you use the PreScouter Service, via the PreScouter website, PreScouter content embedded on another site (such as a PreScouter “Follow” button), your mobile phone, or through one of PreScouter’s applications for mobile devices (e.g., the PreScouter iPhone application). We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information we collect by other means (including offline) or from other sources. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms of Service.
PreScouter collects and uses information to analyze service usage, diagnose service or technical problems, maintain security, personalize content, remember information to help you efficiently access your account, monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns, and track User Content and users as necessary to comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other applicable laws. Information is collected via cookies, login services, and through social media integration as described below.
User-Provided Information: You provide us information about yourself, such as your name, contact details, including e-mail address, and other personal information, if you register for a member account with the Service. Your name and other information you choose to add to your profile will be available for public viewing on the Service. You may provide us with your mobile phone number if you choose to submit questions and receive answers via text message. We may use your email address to send you Service-related notices (including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail). You can control receipt of certain Service-related messages on your Settings page. We may also use your contact information to send you marketing email messages. If you do not want to receive such messages, you may opt out by following the instructions in the message. If you correspond with us by email, we may retain the content of your email messages, your email address and our responses.
We use the “Login with PayPal” feature to verify our member’s paypal email address and to check if their account status is verified. This helps us to notify the member if there are potential issues with their PayPal account so that we can process their payments smoothly. We only collect their PayPal Email address and Account verification status. For more information about this service please visit https://developer.paypal.com/docs/log-in-with-paypal/.
If you use your Facebook, Twitter, or other social networking site (“SNS”) account information to sign in to PreScouter, we will collect and store your SNS user ID. If you connect your PreScouter account with your SNS account (such as to enable posting from PreScouter), we ask for your permission to collect certain information from your SNS account (such as information from your SNS profile).
You also provide us information in User Content you post to the Service. Your questions, answers, and other contributions on the Service, and metadata about them (such as when you posted them), are publicly viewable on the Service, along with your name (unless the Service permits you to post anonymously). This information may be searched by search engines and be republished elsewhere on the Web in accordance with our Terms of Service.
If you choose to use our invitation service to invite a friend to the Service, we will ask you for that person’s email address and automatically send an email invitation. You may also use our contact importer tool to help you upload your friends’ email addresses so you can find friends who are already on PreScouter or invite friends to the Service. PreScouter stores this information to send invitations, to register your friend if your invitation is accepted, to track the success of our invitation service, and to identify your friends on PreScouter.
Information Collected Automatically: When you use the Service, we use persistent and session cookies and other tracking technologies such as third-party analytics providers to: (a) store your username and password; (b) analyze the usage of the Service; (c) customize the Service to your preferences; and (d) control the advertising displayed by the Service. A persistent cookie remains on your computer after you close your browser so that it can be used by your browser on subsequent visits to the Service. Persistent cookies can be removed by following your web browser’s directions. A session cookie is temporary and disappears after you close your browser. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, some features of the Service may not function properly if the ability to accept cookies is disabled.
We may also use other Internet technologies, log files, clear GIFs, Flash technologies, and other similar technologies, to deliver or communicate with cookies and track your use of the Service. We also may include clear GIFs in HTML-based emails sent to our users to determine whether the message has been opened. As we adopt additional technology, we may also gather additional information through other methods.
We use these automated technologies to collect and analyze certain types of information we consider to be non-personal information, including: (a) information related to the devices or browsers you use to access or interact with the Service, such as: IP addresses, geolocation information, unique device identifiers and other information about your mobile phone or other mobile device(s), browser types, browser language, and unique numbers or codes in cookies; and (b) information related to the ways in which you interact with the Service, such as: referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, the number of clicks, domain names, landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time you used the Service, and other similar information. We may also capture other data, such as search criteria and results.
PreScouter discloses a subset of this automatically collected information publicly. Specifically, you consent to PreScouter’s disclosure of information related to the ways in which you interact with the Service, such as: landing pages, pages viewed and the order of those pages (including questions and answers viewed), the date and time you used the Service, and other similar information on the Service to other PreScouter users, along with your name and profile picture. If you do not wish to have this information disclosed to the public, you may opt out of this feature by visiting Settings.
We may collect different types of information about your location, including general information (e.g., IP address, zip code) and more specific information (e.g., GPS-based functionality on mobile devices used to access the Service), and may use that information to customize the Service with location-based information and features. If you access the Service through a mobile device and you do not want your device to provide us with location-tracking information, you can disable the GPS or other location-tracking functions on your device, provided your device allows you to do this.
PreScouter may allow third parties to serve advertisements on the Service and on third-party services and use other third parties to help us collect and analyze information about your use of the service, generate aggregate site usage statistics and provide content sharing services to support the Service. These third parties may also use cookies and similar technologies to collect similar non-personal information about your use of the Service. PreScouter does not control the third parties’ use of such technologies and their use is governed by those parties’ privacy policies.
PreScouter itself does not respond to “do not track” signals, and we do not control whether third parties do. For more information about third-party ad networks that use cookies and the other technologies discussed above, and to opt-out of their tailoring of ads on third-party sites based on this information, see http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and http://www.aboutads.info/consumers.
Personally Identifiable Information: PreScouter may share your personally identifiable information with third parties for the purpose of providing the Service to you or with third parties offering combined services with PreScouter. For example, we may share your personally identifiable information with third-party partners that display PreScouter questions and answers through their services so that such partners can tailor content and advertising to you. If we do this, such third parties’ use of your information will be bound by this Privacy Policy. We may store personal information in locations outside the direct control of PreScouter (for instance, on servers or databases co-located with hosting providers).
We may disclose personal information to the following third parties:
Please note that the following third parties are involved in processing your personal information: Google API Services, Google Sign-In, Google Cloud Platform, Google Analytics.
When disclosing your personal information to third parties, including data processors, we will ensure that they handle your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The third parties will only process your personal information as instructed by us, and we require them to comply with the privacy principles set out in the GDPR or other mechanisms defined by applicable EU and Swiss data protection laws for the transfer and processing of personal information. The term “processing” refers to any operation or set of operations performed on personal information, whether automated or not, including collection, recording, organizing, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or any other form of making the information available.
By providing us with your personal information, you consent to the disclosure of your personal information to third parties outside of the United States. If you are a citizen of the European Union (EU), you also consent to the disclosure of your personal information to third parties outside of the EU. Please be aware that if the disclosure of your personal information is solely subject to United States privacy laws (not the GDPR), we are not required to ensure that those third parties comply with US privacy laws.
Non-Personally Identifiable Information: We may aggregate and/or anonymize information collected through the Service so that the information does not identify you. We may use aggregated, anonymized, and other non-personally identifiable information for any purpose, including for research and marketing purposes, and our use and disclosure of such information is not subject to any restrictions under this Privacy Policy.
PreScouter may allow third-party ad servers or ad networks to serve advertisements on the Service and on third-party services. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on PreScouter. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content. PreScouter does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks PreScouter to show an advertisement to a certain audience and you respond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience they are trying to reach. The PreScouter Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, third-party advertisers. Please consult the respective privacy policies of such advertisers for more information.
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process the information, and the applicable legal requirements.
PreScouter uses commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to preserve the integrity and security of your personal information. We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to PreScouter or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, PreScouter will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.
You have the right to decline submitting personally identifiable information through the Service, in which case PreScouter may not be able to provide certain services to you. You have the right to access, update, correct or request the deletion of your account information at any time.
If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about someone else, you represent and warrant that you have obtained the necessary consent from that person to provide their personal information to us.
If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy or practices, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. PreScouter does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register with the Service. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information.
We are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from the Service, nor the information or content contained therein. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Service to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our website, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies.
California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personally identifiable information (if any) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the types of personally identifiable information disclosed to those parties. As required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), this Privacy Policy describes the categories of personal data collected, processed, and disclosed by PreScouter, the sources for that data, and the business or commercial purposes for which that data is collected, processed, and disclosed. In addition, under California law, you may have the right to request more information about PreScouter’s collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please write to us.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about our practices or this privacy policy, please send mail to:
PreScouter, Inc.
Attn: Privacy
6 E Monroe St, Suite 703
Chicago, IL 60603