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Privacy Policy

A Legal Disclaimer

We value our relationship with you and your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how and why we handle information collected through helloaboutme.com, associated sites, forums, channels and any other app we provide (collectively, our "Site"). This Privacy Policy is part of our Terms of Use.

While we do not encourage our Members to upload any Regulated Data or Submission that contains the personal information of other people, there may be circumstances in which we are either unaware that a Submission contains personal information or the Member has complied with our Terms of Use in uploading the personal information of others in such a Submission. If you are a Member, please pay special attention to whether you are uploading a Submission with personal information to the OPEN or the PRIVATE side of our Site. IF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU IS IN A SUBMISSION AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE CONTACT US AS PROVIDED BELOW.

When you visit helloaboutme.com, you are agreeing to this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, please do not use our Site. Except as specifically described, this policy does not apply to data contained within your Submissions.

Information We Collect

We collect information about you directly from you and from third-parties, as well as automatically through your use of helloaboutme.com.

  • Information We Collect Directly from You. The information we collect from you depends on how you use our Site. When you register, we collect your user name, password, email address and any additional information you choose to give us. We may also collect your payment information through our third-party payment processor and information when you contact us.

  • Information We Collect from Third-parties. We also collect information about you from third-parties, such as organizations you are associated with or with which you collaborate. For example, we collect information about you from third-parties in connection with you joining their organization on our Site or collaborating with them, such as your name, email addresses, titles, roles and other information these third-parties provide us. We may also collect information on how you are using the Site in the context of such organization or third-parties and provide that information to the organization you are associated with or with which you are collaborating as described under the Sharing of Information section below.

  • Information We Collect Automatically. We automatically collect the following information about your use of our Site through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies: your domain name; your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your IP address; the length of time you visit or use our Site; and the referring URL, or the webpage that led you to our Site. We may combine this information with other information that we have collected about you, including, where applicable, your user name, name, and other personal information. Please see the section "Cookies and Tracking" below for more information.

Customer service

We use your information for customer service purposes, including to provide services to you; to provide you with technical support, or other similar purposes; and to establish and update your customer account.

  • Marketing. We use your information for marketing purposes, including to provide you with special offers, promotions, news, and newsletters; to contact you about products we think may interest you; and for other marketing, advertising, and promotional purposes. We also may use the information that we learn about you to assist us in advertising our services on third-party websites.

  • Business. We use information we collect for business development purposes, including in presentations, blogs and papers we publish.

  • Administration. We use your information for administrative purposes, including to help us better understand how our Members and visitors use and access helloaboutme.com; to provide reports to prospective partners, service providers, regulators, and others; to implement and maintain security, anti-piracy, fraud prevention, and other services designed to protect you and us; to enforce this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Use, and other policies.

  • Legal compliance. We use your information to comply with applicable legal or regulatory obligations, including to respond to a subpoena or court order; to cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental investigations; and as part of legal proceedings.

  • Protection of us and others. We use your information where we believe it is necessary to protect us and others.

Sharing of Information

We share your information with our company affiliates and service providers. We may also share your information in the following ways:

In response to legal process. We may share your information when we believe it is appropriate to comply with the law or a regulatory requirement.
To protect us and others. We may share your information where we believe it is necessary to:
prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft
to enforce a contract
to protect our and the legal rights of others, our Site, or safety of you, helloaboutme.com, our corporate relatives, and our employees, clients, partners, agents, other Members and visitors, or the public in general
to enforce our Terms of Use or this Privacy Policy
to monitor and remediate security issues
When you submit your payment information, you are authorizing Stripe, our third-party payment processor, to collect, retain, use and disclose the information you provide as part of that process as well as the information Stripe collects from you using cookies or other similar means. Stripe agrees to use that information in accordance with its Privacy Policy located at https://stripe.com/us/privacy .

Your Choices

You have certain choices regarding the information we collect about you. For example, you may: Request to modify the personal information you submitted to us. If you have created an account on our Site, you may modify the personal information you submitted to us through your Account Settings page on our Site. Opt out of promotional email communications. You may opt out of promotional emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the email, or if you have an account with us, by submitting your request through the Help button on your Account Settings page on our Site. Deactivate your account. If you have an account with us, you may deactivate your account by submitting your request through the Help button on your Account Settings page on our Site.

Cookies and Tracking

We and our service providers use cookies and other mechanisms to track information about your use and access of our Site. We or our service providers may combine this information with other information we collect about you, including personal information.

Cookies. We or our service providers may use cookies to track visitor activity on our Site. We or our service providers may use cookies to track Member and visitor activities on our Site, such as the web pages you view and time you spend on our Site. Visitors to our Site who disable cookies may not be able to browse certain areas of our Site. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. Note that if you get a new computer, install a new browser, erase or otherwise alter your browser's cookie file (including upgrading your browser) you may also clear out any opt-out cookie.

Clear GIFs, Pixel Tags and Other Technologies. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in functionality to cookies, which are embedded invisibly on web pages. We or our service providers may use clear GIFs (also known as web beacons, web bugs, pixel tags, or action tags, among other names), in connection with our Site to perform functions like tracking the activities of visitors to our Site, helping us manage content, and compiling statistics about usage of and visits to our Site. We or our service providers may also use clear GIFs in emails to help us track email response rates, identify when our emails are viewed, and track whether our emails are forwarded.

Embedded Scripts. We use embedded scripts, which is code designed to collect information about how visitors interact with a website, such as the website which linked them to our Site.

Third-Party Analytics. We use service providers, such as Google Analytics and MixPanel, among others, to evaluate the access and use of our Site. We also may use other analytic means to evaluate our Site. We use these tools to help us improve our services, performance and Member experiences. These entities may use cookies and other tracking technologies to perform their services. To review how Google Analytics collects and processes data, see Privacy Policy – Privacy & Terms – Google.

Do Not Track. Our Site do not respond to Do Not Track signals, but we do not track your activities once you leave one of our Site. You may disable certain tracking as discussed in this section (e.g., by disabling cookies).

Third-Party Links

Our Site may contain links to non-helloaboutme.com websites and applications. Any access to and use of such non-helloaboutme.com websites and applications are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

International Transfers of Information

If you are located anywhere outside of the United States, please be aware that information we collect about you, including personal information, will be transferred to, processed and stored in the United States. U.S. governmental agencies, courts, or law enforcement may be able to access or obtain your personal information (for example, in response to a court order) or personal information contained in your Submissions to a private side of our Site. By accessing or using helloaboutme.com, you consent to the transfer, processing, and storage of your information, including personal information, in the United States.

Children

Our Site is for general audiences and is not targeted to children. We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children younger than the age of 13. If you learn that your minor child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us.

Security

We have taken steps to help protect the information we collect about you and the data sets that you post to the private side of our Site. However, no data security measures can guarantee security. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of any information we have collected about you or the Submissions or data that you post to our Site, and your access or use of helloaboutme.com indicates that you understand and accept this risk. You should take steps to protect your account by, among other things, choosing a strong password that nobody else knows or can easily guess and keeping your log-in and password information private. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen, or compromised passwords or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity.

Changes to this Privacy Notice

This Privacy Policy will be updated from time to time. Changes to this Privacy Policy will go into effect when posted and will only apply to information collected on and after the "Last Updated" date of the revised Privacy Policy. If revisions to this Privacy Policy materially affect how we use personal information that we collected from you prior to the date of the revised Privacy Policy, we will obtain your consent for any new uses or sharing of your personal information. We will post any updated Privacy Policy to our Site.

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