Appendix A
Privacy Information for California Residents
This Appendix applies solely to individuals who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). This Appendix complies with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Appendix. This Appendix does not apply to personal information outside the scope of the CCPA.
- CollegeAdvisor.com as a Service Provider
When we act as a service provider for our customers, we collect personal information on behalf of our customers subject to our contractual obligations. When we act as a service provider, we follow the instructions of our customer on how to process personal information on our customer’s behalf. The provisions of this Appendix do not apply to the personal information that we process on behalf of our business customers.
- What Personal Information We Collect and How We Share it
The below chart lists the categories of personal information that we may collect and have collected in the past 12 months and how we share such information.
Categories of Personal Information
Categories of Services Providers and Third Parties with whom Personal Information is Shared
Identifiers. This may include a real name, alias, address, email address, phone number, online identifier, IP address, account username and password, or other similar identifiers.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; our affiliates; ad networks; data analytics providers; prospective purchasers of our business; other users of our Services; and social networks.
Educational Information. This may include the name of your school, graduation year, extra-curricular activities, grades, SAT/ACT scores, or awards.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; our affiliates; ad networks; prospective purchasers of our business; and other users of our Services.
Internet and Network Information. This may include information on your interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, such as browsing history and how you use your account.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; our affiliates; ad networks; prospective purchasers of our business; and other users of our Services.
Device Information. This may include the operating system of your device, device identifier, the type of device you are using, or your geolocation information.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; our affiliates; prospective purchasers of our business; and other users of our Services.
Order Information. This may include information about what Services you sign up for, complaints, or warranties.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; our affiliates; ad networks; data analytics providers; and social networks.
Payment and Credit Information. This may include your credit or debit card information about your payment transaction, or other financial information you provide us.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; ad networks; data analytics providers; and social networks.
Other Information You Submit to Us. This may include requests or communications you submit to us, including emails, ratings, interactions with colleges/coaches, or customer service call recording.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; our affiliates; ad networks; data analytics providers; prospective purchasers of our business; and social networks.
Inferences We Draw About You. This may include information about your preferences, characteristics, predispositions, behavior, or other trends that help us identify which products you may be interested in.
Entities that we are required to share with pursuant to law or for legal proceedings; service providers; our affiliates; and prospective purchasers of our business.
- Sale of Personal Information
CCPA defines a “sale” of personal information broadly to include more than exchanges for monetary purposes. A sale can include personal information shared with a third party for “valuable consideration,” or information shared with a third party (even if they are performing services on our behalf) if they are permitted to use the information for their own purposes.
In the past 12 months, we have sold the following categories of personal information: Identifiers, Internet and Network information, Inferences we draw about you, Device information, and Educational Information. We sell your personal information to the following categories of third parties: ad networks, data analytics providers, other users of our Services (such as colleges and universities), and our Advertising Partners as identified in our Privacy Policy.
- Personal Information Sales Opt-Out
If you are 16 years of age or older, you have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information at any time (the “right to opt out”). We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt in”) from either the consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt in to personal information sales may optout of future sales at any time.
To exercise the right to opt out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us at: https://www.ncsasports.org/privacy-policy/do-not-sell-my-personal-information.
Once you make an opt-out request, we will wait at least twelve (12) months before asking you to reauthorize personal information sales. You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your opt-out rights. We will only use personal information provided in an opt-out request to review and comply with the request.
- California Residents’ Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information, described below. Below are your CCPA rights and how to exercise those rights.
- Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights (“Right to Know”)
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. You could request:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you;
- The categories of sources of the personal information we collected about you;
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting that personal information;
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information; or
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.
Our employees and employees of our business partners and service providers also do not have a Right to Know.
- Deletion Request Rights (Right to Deletion)
You have the right to request that we delete some or all of the personal information that we have collected from you and retained, subject to a number of exceptions. We are not required to delete personal information that is: (a) necessary to complete a transaction with you or for warranty or product recalls; (b) used for security purposes, to prevent fraud, to fix errors, or to comply with law; (c) reasonable for us to use for internal purposes given our relationship with you; or (d) compatible with the context in which you provided the information. The list of exceptions above is not exhaustive, and we may also deny a deletion request as otherwise permitted by law.
Our employees and employees of our business partners and service providers also do not have a Right to Deletion.
- Exercising Your Rights
To exercise your rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:
- Calling us at 855-413-6272.
- Emailing us at privacy@ncsasports.org.
Only you, or a person or entity that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. If you are making a request on behalf of another person, you must provide written legal documentation that you are authorized to act on behalf of that individual.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative; and
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We may not be able to fulfill your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. To verify your identity, we may request up to up to three pieces of personal information about you, and we reserve the right to take additional steps as necessary to verify your identity if we have reason to believe a request is fraudulent.
- Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time(up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the date we receive your verifiable consumer request. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
- Non-Discrimination
You have the right to not be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:
- Deny you goods or services;
- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties;
- Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services; or
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.
- Other California Privacy Rights
California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us through the information provided above.
National Collegiate Scouting Association, LLC Privacy Policy
We at National Collegiate Scouting Association, LLC (“Company”,” “we,” “us,” “our”) know that our users (“you,” “your”) care about how your personal information is used and shared, and we take your privacy very seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy. By visiting or using the CollegeAdvisor.com website and domain name, and any other linked pages, features, content, or any other services we offer from time to time by in connection therewith (collectively, the "Website"), you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined in this Privacy Policy, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use, and share your information in the following ways.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information ("Personal Information") that we gather when you are accessing or using our website. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage. **Information you choose to disclose publicly on the website (i.e., information which is viewable to other Website users) will not be considered Personal Information.**
Company does not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register. If you are under 13, please do not attempt to register for the Website or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to Company or on the Website. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@collegeadvisor.com.
What Information Does CollegeAdvisor.com Collect?
We gather various types of Personal Information from our users, as explained more fully below. We may use this Personal Information to personalize and improve our services, to allow our users to set up a user account and profile, to contact users, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, to analyze how users utilize the Website, and as otherwise set forth in this Privacy Policy. We may share certain types of Personal Information with third parties (as set forth in this Section and in Section III below). We collect the following types of information:
Information You Provide To Us
We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us. For example, during the registration process, we collect Personal Information such as your name, user name, email address, IP address, browser information, and third-party account credentials (for example, your log-in credentials for Facebook or other third party sites). If you provide your third-party account credentials to us, you are consenting to have the information in those accounts (“Third Party Account Information”) transmitted into your account with us, and that Third Party Account Information is covered by this Privacy Policy. We may collect other Personal Information you provide us through your use of our services, such as notes you compose about your contacts; however, these private notes will not be shared with other Website users, unless you choose to share them. You can choose not to provide us with certain information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of many of our special features.
Information Collected Automatically
Whenever you interact with our Website, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, “cookie” information, and the page you requested.
Cookies” are identifiers we transfer to your computer through your browser that allow us to recognize your browser and tell us how and when pages in our site are visited and by how many people. You may be able to change the preferences on your browser to prevent or limit your computer’s acceptance of cookies, but this may prevent you from taking advantage of our Website’s best features. Our advertising partners may also transmit cookies to your computer, when you click on ads that appear on our site. This Privacy Policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
When we collect usage information (such as the numbers and frequency of visitors to our site), we only use this data in aggregate form, and not in a manner that would identify you personally. For example, this aggregate data tells us how often customers use parts of the Website, so that we can make the Website appealing to as many customers as possible. We may also provide this aggregate information to our partners, so that they can understand how often people use their services and our Website, so that they, too, can provide you with an optimal online experience. We never disclose aggregate information to a partner in a manner that would identify you personally.
E-Mail And Other Communications
We may contact you, by email or other means; for example, we may send you promotional offers on behalf of other businesses or communicate with you about your use of the Website. If you do not want to receive email or other mail from us, please indicate your preference through your account settings. Also, we may receive a confirmation when you open an email from us. This confirmation helps us make emails more interesting and improve our service.
Will CollegeAdvisor.com Share Any Of My Information It Receives?
We neither rent nor sell your Personal Information to anyone. We share your Personal Information with third parties only as described below.
Affiliated Businesses And Third Party Websites We Do Not Control
In certain situations, businesses or third party websites we’re affiliated with may sell items or provide services to you through the Website (either alone or jointly with us). We may, for example, sell products or provide services jointly with affiliated businesses, or work with third party websites to enhance your online experience. You can recognize when an affiliated business is associated with such a transaction or service, and we will share your Personal Information with that affiliated business only to the extent that it is related to such transaction or service. One such service may include the ability for you to choose to automatically transmit information you input on the Website to your profile on a third party website; for example, you may update your contact information on the Website and allow that update to also be reflected in your Facebook account. We have no control over the policies and practices of third party websites as to privacy or anything else, so if you choose to allow the automatic transmissions discussed above, please review all third party websites’ policies before engaging in such automatic transmissions on the Website.
Agents
We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you. Unless we tell you differently, our agents do not have any right to use the Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us. For example, if you were to engage in a credit card transaction via the Website, we would need to allow a credit card processing company to verify the transaction; however, that company would only be authorized to use your credit card information to the extent we needed their assistance in completing your transaction.
Business Transfers
We may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred. Also, if we (or substantially all of our assets) are acquired, or if we are reorganized or go through some other change of control, Personal Information would be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by a third party. We will try to give you advance notice if your Personal Information will be transferred to a third party in this manner, so that you can delete your account with us if you choose.
Protection Of Company And Others
We may release Personal Information when we believe in good faith that release is necessary to comply with that law; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
With Your Consent
Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your Personal Information may be shared with third parties, and will be able to prevent the sharing of this information.
We endeavor to protect the privacy of your account and other Personal Information we hold in our records, but we cannot guarantee complete security. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors, may compromise the security of user information at any time.
The Website may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on other sites. When following a link to another site you should read that site’s privacy policy.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Website or sending you an email. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Website after such changes have been first posted.
Questions Or Concerns
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our privacy policies, please send us a detailed message to support@collegeadvisor.com. We will make every effort to resolve your concerns.
