Effective: June 12, 2020
We at Scroobious appreciate the importance of your privacy and take it seriously. The following Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Scroobious (“Scroobious,” “we,” “our,” “us”) collects, uses, and discloses certain personal information obtained through our website (“Site”), which is located at scroobious.com. By visiting our Site and/or using the features made available to you on the Site (the “Services”), you are agreeing to the terms of this Policy.
This Policy applies only to information collected through the Site and therefore does not apply to data we collect in other contexts.
What information we collect and maintain about you
We collect personal and other information from you directly when you provide it to us through the website. We may also automatically collect certain information about you and your computer, smartphone, or other device when you use, access, or interact with our Site.
General visitors. You can visit the Site without submitting any information that we can use to identify you personally. However, if you use certain features on the Site, such as the “Contact Us” feature, or when you sign up for our newsletter or waitlist, you will be required to provide personal information. Such information could include, for example, your name, email address, or phone number. Our online contact form also contains a “comments” field through which you may submit additional personal information.
Founders and Investors. If you are a Founder or an Investor and you make an account with us, we will collect your personal information in order to maintain your account and connect you with other users of the Site who may be interested in learning more about your company. The personal information we collect may include your name, contact information (such as your phone number and email address), employment information, and other information that we collect as part of the onboarding process. If you are a Founder, we may also collect information about your business including your company website, incorporation status, social media information, and any information that you provide in your business video for Investors.
For both Founders and Investors, we may collect any information you provide through the internal messaging service available through the Site. We will also collect payment information from Founders and Investors so that they can access our services.
Social media information. If you are a Founder or an Investor, we may collect information available on the social media accounts that you link to your Scroobious account, including information from your LinkedIn. This could include your name, employment history, and education information. Additionally, if you are a Founder or an Investor, you may link your social media accounts to your Scroobious profile such that they may be accessible to other users of the Site.
Web log data. When you use the Site, we automatically receive and record certain information from your computer (or other device) and your browser. This may include such data as your IP address and domain name, the pages you visit on the Site, the date and time of your visit, the files that you download, the URLs from the websites you visit before and after navigating to the Site, your software and hardware attributes (including device IDs), your general geographic location (e.g., your city, state, or metropolitan region), and certain cookie information (see below). To obtain such information, we may use web logs or applications that recognize your computer and gather information about its online activity.
Cookies. We also use cookies on the Site. Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer by your web browser. A cookie allows the Site to recognize whether you have visited before and may store user preferences and other information. For example, cookies can be used to collect or store information about your use of the Site during your current session and over time (including the pages you view, the videos you watch, and the files you download), your computer’s operating system and browser type, your Internet service provider, your domain name and IP address, your general geographic location, the website that you visited before the Site, and the link you used to leave the Site. If you are concerned about having cookies on your computer, you can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being set, allowing you to decide whether to accept it. You can also delete cookies from your computer. However, if you choose to block or delete cookies, certain features of the Site may not operate correctly.
Web beacons. The Site or the emails that you receive from us may use an application known as a “web beacon” (also known as a “clear gif” or “web bug”). A web beacon is an electronic file that usually consists of a single-pixel image. It can be embedded in a web page or in an email to transmit information, which could include personal information. For example, it can allow an email sender to determine whether a user has opened a particular email.
Third-party online tracking. We also may partner with certain third parties to collect, analyze, and use some of the personal and other information described in this section. For example, we may allow third parties to set cookies or use web beacons on the Site or in email communications from us. This information may be used for a variety of purposes, including website analytics, as discussed below (see the section entitled “With whom we share your information”).
How we use your information
Scroobious uses the information that we collect for a variety of purposes. These purposes include, for example:
In addition to the purposes above, we use the information that we collect automatically through the Site for such purposes as:
Scroobious may link information gathered through the Site with information that we collect in other contexts. But in that event, we will handle the combined information in a manner consistent with this Policy.
With whom and why we share your information
We share your information with other parties for a variety of purposes, as described below.
To provide our services. If you are a Founder and you publish a business video onto the Site through your Scroobious account, that video and the information in it will be available to Investors. Other Founders, however, will not be able to view these videos.
If you are a Founder or an Investor and you would like to connect with other users of our Site (including other Founders and Investors), you may use the internal messaging service available on the Site. Additionally, the information that Founders include in their Scroobious profiles (but not their videos) will be available to other Founders through an online Founder forum through our Site. Investors will also be able to view Investor profile pages on the online Investor forum available through the Site.
Analytics. We partner with certain third parties to obtain the automatically collected information discussed above and to engage in analysis, auditing, research, and reporting. These third parties may use web logs or web beacons, and they may set and access cookies on your computer or other device. In particular, the Site uses Google Analytics to help collect and analyze certain information for the purposes discussed above. You may opt out of the use of cookies by Google Analytics here.
The use of online tracking mechanisms by third parties is subject to those third parties’ own privacy policies, and not this Policy. If you prefer to prevent third parties from setting and accessing cookies on your computer or other device, you may set your browser to block cookies. Although our Site currently does not respond to “do not track” browser headers, you can limit tracking through these third-party programs and by taking the other steps discussed above.
Third-party service providers. Scroobious uses third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf, including web-hosting companies, mailing vendors, machine learning and artificial intelligence development, and analytics providers. These service providers may collect and/or use your information, including information that identifies you personally, to assist us in achieving the purposes discussed above.
We may share your information with other third parties when necessary to fulfill your requests for services; to complete a transaction that you initiate; to meet the terms of any agreement that you have with us or our partners; or to manage our business.
Legal purposes. We also may use or share your information with third parties when we believe, in our sole discretion, that doing so is necessary:
Aggregated information. From time to time, Scroobious may also share aggregated information about Site users, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Site. Such aggregated information will not identify you personally.
Choice
You may opt out of receiving marketing emails from us by following the instructions in those emails or by emailing us at info@scroobious.com.
How you can access or correct your information
If you want to learn more about the personal information that Scroobious has about you, or you would like to update or change that information, please contact us by email at info@scroobious.com.
External links
This Site may contain links to third-party websites. If you use these links, you will leave the Site. We have not reviewed these third-party sites and do not control and are not responsible for any of these sites, their content, or their privacy policy. Thus, we do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software, or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites listed on our website, you do so at your own risk.
Data Security
We employ physical, technical, and administrative procedures to safeguard the personal information we collect online. However, no website is 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to the Site or to us, and you transmit such information at your own risk.
Confidentiality
If you are a Founder and you provide information about your business to Scroobious, we will maintain the information you provide on our servers using the data security protocols described above. However, our site makes this information available to potential investors in your business, and we cannot guarantee how those investors may use or disclose your corporate information. To learn more, please visit our Terms of Service.
International Users
The information that we collect through or in connection with the Site is transferred to and processed in the United States for the purposes described above. Scroobious may subcontract the processing of your data to, or otherwise share your data with, affiliates or third parties in the United States or countries other than your country of residence. The data-protection laws in these countries may be different from, and less stringent than, those in your country of residence. By using the Site or by providing any personal or other information to us, you expressly consent to such transfer and processing.
Children
Content on this Site is directed at individuals over the age of 18 and is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
Changes to this Policy
Scroobious may make changes to the Site in the future and as a consequence will need to revise this Policy to reflect those changes. Scroobious will post all such changes on the Site, so you should review this page periodically. If we make a material change to the Policy, you will be provided with appropriate notice.
How to contact us
Should you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, you can contact us at info@scroobious.com.
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