Privacy Policy
Last updated: January 27, 2022
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY.
InsideScholar, PBC as well as any present or future affiliated or related company (collectively, “Company.”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy as a user (“User,” “you,” or “your”) and is committed to protecting your Personal Data (as defined below) and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at info@insidescholar.org.
We take your privacy very seriously. This Privacy Policy tells you what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important.
This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our websites including the “insidscholar.org” website and any related websites or applications which we own or control (collectively, the “Sites”), and/or any related services, products, software, tool, data feed, sales, marketing, or events we provide (collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any non-affiliated third-party sites or services.
By using the Sites and/or Services, you understand and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Last updated” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are collecting and processing your information.
SUMMARY
We collect Personal Data from you and from third parties when you use our Services and/or visit the Sites.
We will use your Personal Data for our business purposes, including providing our Services to you, and, with your consent, to provide promotional and marketing materials.We share your information with third parties that provide certain products or services to help us fulfill the Services you request from us, with our corporate affiliates, and with your consent, to other third parties for the purposes we obtained your consent for.
We use appropriate safeguards to protect your Personal Data.
WHAT IS PERSONAL DATA?
"Personal Data" means personally identifiable information about you and includes any information or opinion relating to you which allows us to identify you, such as your name, email address, and details of Services you have used. Where applicable, Personal Data includes “personal data”, “personal information” and/or “sensitive personal information”, each as defined in applicable data privacy laws.
WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT?
We collect Personal Data in a variety of ways. When you use the Sites and/or Services, we may ask for or you may provide information including:
- first and last name, and email address;
- other information necessary for the performance of the Sites or the Services;
- information you provide about yourself and any preferences when using the Services (such as optional information regarding feedback of the Services or other services you are using in conjunction with the Services);
- information about your use of the Sites and/or Services; and
- communications with us or directed to us, or to other using the Services via the Services and/or the Sites.
We may also collect your Personal Data from third parties, including our corporate affiliates and third party sites that connect to our Sites and/or Services (collectively, “Third Party Services”). We may collect any Personal Data you give to us or to our service providers through the Third-Party Services, including Personal Data given so that we may perform the Services. Additionally, if you use a Third-Party Service account to connect to our Sites and/or Services, we may also collect certain account information you authorize us to collect. Information collected by third party devices or on other sites and services is subject to the privacy policy and practices of the third party providing such site or services and not subject to this Privacy Policy. Please consult the privacy policies of any third party with which you share information in this manner to learn about the third party’s data practices.
Additionally, during your access and usage of the Sites, we may collect usage Personal Data from you. This may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
You may always choose not to provide personally identifiable information, but if you do so, certain parts of the Sites and/or Services may not be available to you. If you have used the Sites and/or Services, you will have agreed to let use the Personal Data you provided us in order to access the Services.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We may use your Personal Data to provide you with access to the Sites and/or Services you request. This may include: To run our organization;
- To run our organization;
- To operate, maintain, and improve the Sites and/or Services;
- To manage your account, including to communicate with you
- To respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer service
- To send information including technical notices, updates, security alerts;
- With your consent, to send you including marketing communications and news concerning our products, services, events, and other promotions. You can opt-out at any time – the marketing emails will tell you how to opt-out or you may contact us at [EMAIL ADDRESS]. Please note, even if you opt out of receiving marketing emails, we may still send you non-marketing emails; and
- To improve our Services and/or Sites.
We may also use information we collect for necessary or essential purposes including complying with applicable law and legal processes, detecting and investigating security events, facilitating functionality to our Sites, enforcing the terms of any promotion or giveaway that we run, protecting our rights, and pursuing available remedies for damages we obtain.
We may also use and store Personal Data you provide to us in an aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individuals and does not include personal information. We may use or share information in an anonymized and aggregated manner for many purposes such as research, analysis, modeling, marketing, and advertising, as well as improving our Sites and Services. We may also use your Personal Data in other ways, and where we do so, we will provide specific notice at the time of collection and obtain your consent unless otherwise permitted by applicable data privacy law.
WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?
We share your information with our personnel and within our Company to provide you with the Services and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. This includes other companies, contractors or agents that assist us in providing Services, third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures, government authorities, law enforcement bodies, and regulators for compliance with legal requirements, or where otherwise required by applicable data privacy law, and other legal and professional advisers in order to enforce our rights in relation to our relationship with you. We also share your Personal Data with our corporate affiliates or any other entity which we share common ownership. We may also transfer your Personal Data to potential buyers in the event that we sell or transfer all of a part of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization or dissolution/liquidation), under strict non-disclosure restrictions, and solely in order to allow a buyer to determine whether to proceed with the transaction, or where such a determination is made, to complete it.
As applicable, we will limit sharing of your information in accordance with the choices you have provided us. We will not share your Personal Data with any other third parties without your consent, including to third parties not required for us to perform the Services. If we share your Personal Data for any reasons not described in this Privacy Policy, we will inform you before sharing your Personal Data.
IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?
To provide the Services, your Personal Data may be transferred to multiple jurisdictions, some of which are not located in your country of residence. The Personal Data that we collect from users will be stored in the United States of America and might also be stored or processed through third-party service providers in other countries. Therefore, the Personal Data that you provide to us may be transferred internationally to countries other than the country in which you initially provided your data.
When transferring Personal Data to a third-party service provider, or outside of your home country, we take measures to protect your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy and in compliance with applicable data privacy law. Using contractual and other means, we also require all third-party data recipients (including our service providers) to process your information in a secure manner and in accordance with the applicable data privacy law in your country of residence. However, when stored or processed in another country, your Personal Data will be subject to the applicable data privacy law of that country, which may not provide the same protections as the applicable data privacy law in your country of residence. If you have further questions about this or would like to request to view copies of the applicable safeguards (where required), please contact us.
DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGY?
When you visit the Sites and/or Services, open up electronic communication from us, or interact with us on social media platforms, we may also automatically collect information about you by automated means. In some instances, we may also allow third parties to collect information about you through automated means. Some of these technologies include:
Cookies: Cookies are small text files that websites send to internet connected devices to make your user experience more efficient. Some cookies may exist for a single session and some are persistent for multiple sessions. Some cookies are strictly necessary for the operation of these Sites and some are optional. We may also use cookies that are managed by third parties for the purposes explained in this Privacy Policy.
Web server logs: Our web servers may collect information on your usage details of your device, including your IP address, operating system, and usage of the Sites.
Web beacons, pixels, software: We may place items on our Sites or in our electronic communications called “web beacons” or “pixels”. These items help link web pages to particular web servers and their cookies to help us understand our Sites’ traffic. These items may be used to track the pages you view, links that you click, time spent on a page, and other online behavior.
Other: We may use other technology to collect information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. These technologies may permit collection of data elements such as browser type, operating system type, IP address, activities conducted on our Sites, and the time and day of your visit. If you visit our website from a mobile device, we collect mobile device information such as data previously mentioned and your location information.
Most web browsers offer settings that allow you disable or delete cookies and other tracking technology. However, if you restrict, disable, or delete cookies, you may not be able to fully use our Sites and/or Services. If you make this change after you have visited our Sites, you may have to manually delete existing cookies from your electronic device.
Our Sites and/or Services may also contain embedded plug-ins, widgets, pixels, or other programming associated with third parties, including external social media platforms. When you encounter these embedded objects, your web browser may establish a direct connection to the third-party services, and in doing so, share information such as your behavior while browsing our Sites, your public profile, and content you have shared.
We do not currently respond to Do Not Track browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We will only keep your Personal Data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Data, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your Personal Data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA SAFE?
We have implemented accepted industry standards to help protect your Personal Data. This includes organizational, physical, and technical organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee absolute security. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, transmission of Personal Data to and from our Sites and Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Sites and the Services within a secure environment. If you have reason to believe that your Personal Data or any interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem at info@insidescholar.org.
We will let you know promptly if a breach occurs that may have compromised the privacy or security of your Personal Data.
DO WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA FROM MINORS?
We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 16 years of age. By using the Sites or the Services, you represent that you are at least 16. If we learn that personal information from users less than 16 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 16, please contact us at info@insidescholar.org.
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Date you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data. You can also always opt-out by sending us an email with your request to info@insidescholar.org.
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to info@insidescholar.org.
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website.
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information. Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to this designated address: info@insidescholar.org.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit Privacy Policy For California Residents.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at info@insidescholar.org or by post to:
InsideScholar, PBC ATTN: Privacy 684 Vasquez Winter Park, CO 80482-0057