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Last modified: June 9, 2019
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:
It does not apply to information collected by:
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.
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.
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.
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and Platform, including information:
We collect this information:
The information we collect on or through our Website, App, and Platform may include:
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.
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:
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:
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.
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.
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information or Social Data:
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.
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:
We may also disclose your personal 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:
California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more 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.
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.
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.
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.
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:
help@bluesquad.co