Blue Squad | Privacy Policy

Last modified: June 9, 2019

Introduction

Blue Squad Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website Bluesquad.co (our “Website”), use the Blue Squad mobile application (the “App”), or use the Blue Squad platform (the “Platform”)(whether accessed through the Website or the App) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
Through the Platform.
Through the App.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website or the Platform.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or Platform. By accessing or using our Website or Platform, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Website or Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

How the Platform Uses Social Data

One of the core functionalities of the Platform is to facilitate communications between you and your social media connections who are likely to support a given organization. In order to receive this service, you must first upload your social media data (“Social Data”) to the Platform. The nature and scope of such data depends on the applicable social media platform’s policies and practices, which we encourage you to review carefully before uploading your Social Data to the Platform. We may derive insights from your Social Data, and we may share those insights with organizations you support through the Platform. For example, we may learn from your Social Data that one of your social media connections is likely to support an organization that you support. We may also learn from your Social Data how you or one of your social media connections is connected to another individual the organization wishes to reach. We may share such insights with the applicable organization. We do not share such insights with anyone else, and we do not share your Social Data with any third parties whatsoever. We also do not directly contact your social media connections or allow organizations using the Platform, or any other third parties, to do so; we merely enable you to do so from within the Platform.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website and Platform are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website and Platform. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or the Platform. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at help@bluesquad.co. California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and Platform, including information:

By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, App, and Platform and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through our Website, App, and Platform. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website, App, and Platform may include:

Social Data, if you choose to upload such Social Data to the Platform.
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website, App, or Platform. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, App, or Platform, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website, App, or Platform.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted, by email or other means, to other users of the Website, the App, the Platform, or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website or Platform with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). We do not currently have technology deployed that is capable of responding to “do-not-track” signals from your web browser. Therefore, to disable behavioral tracking, you must disable cookies when using the Website or the Platform.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website, App, and Platform and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Facilitate communications between users and their social media connections who are deemed likely to support a given political campaign.
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website, App, or Platform according to your individual interests.
Recognize you when you return to our Website, App, or Platform.

We use “cookies” (or “browser cookies”) for this automatic data collection. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website or Platform. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website or Platform. For clarity, we do not display third-party ads on the Website, although we may use cookie data to display ads to you on other sites or within the App. As a general matter, ads that we display in this fashion will be for organizations you are likely to support, based on the organizations you support within the Platform.

Third-Party Use of Cookies

Some content or applications, on the Website, App, or Platform, are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content on other websites.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information or Social Data:

To enable you to identify, through the App or Platform, who among your social media contacts are likely to support organizations in which you are interested.
To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website, App, or Platform or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website, App, or Platform.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We will not use your information or Social Data to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We will not use the information we have collected from you, including Social Data, to display advertisements, or for any other purpose not disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Blue Squad Inc.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Blue Squad Inc. about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use https://www.bluesquad.co/terms-of-use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Blue Squad Inc., our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies. 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.
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 contacting us at help@bluesquad.co. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
Deletion of Social Data from the Platform. You can delete your Social Data from the Platform by going to your account settings in the App, scrolling through the files you have uploaded and clicking the applicable ‘Delete’ button. Doing so will remove the deleted Social Data files completely from the Platform.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Platform and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at contacting us at help@bluesquad.co to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. If you delete your User Contributions from the Platform, copies of your User Contributions might have been copied or stored by other Platform users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Platform, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use https://www.bluesquad.co/terms-of-use.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

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 https://www.bluesquad.co/ccpa.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, App, or Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website, App, or Platform. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or Platform.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.