Privacy Policy
Privacy and security are very important to us at pitch sink, inc. (“Company” or “We”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This End User Privacy Policy (“Policy”) is meant to help the End User (the “You”) understand how we collect, use, and share your data to power the website (the “Website”) you use. policy describes:
The types of information we may collect or that you may provide when you download, install, register, access, or use the Website.
Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing the information.
This Policy applies only to information we collect in this Website and/or in email, text, and other electronic transmission sent through or in connection with this Website and any other third-party software integrated with the Website.
This policy DOES NOT apply to information that:
We collect offline or on any other Company apps or websites, including websites you may access through this Website.
You provide to or is collected by any third party.
Our websites, apps, and other third parties may have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to read before providing information on or through them.
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not download, register with, or use our products and services. By downloading, registering with, or using this Website, you explicitly agree to this privacy policy and opt-in to all settings. You also acknowledge that we may change our policy from time to time. Your continued use after we revise the policy means that you accept those changes. Please check the policy periodically for updates.
Data We Collect and Categories of Sources
As explained in greater detail below, the data we collect, use, and share depends on may vary based on your usage of the Website.
We may collect the following:
Data you provide to us;
Data from using the Website;
Data from third parties;
Data from the electronic devices you use to connect;
Data from other sources, including service providers and identity verification services.
Data You Provide To Us
When you download, register with, or use this Website, we may collect personally identifiable information (“personal information”), such as:
Identifiers, such as real name, postal address, phone number, date of birth, email address, signature.
Government-Issued Identifiers, such as your social security number, driver’s license, state identification car, or passport number.
Login Identifiers, such as usernames, passwords, and security tokens.
By providing Us this data, you also give the Company permission and authority to act on your behalf to access and transmit data to and from the relevant parties or third parties that hold your financial account.
Data from Third Parties
Depending on your usage of the Website, we may collect the following data from third parties when you connect your financial accounts with or through the Website. By linking your third-party accounts, you authorize the Company to collect and have access to this information. Third-party data includes:
Account Data. Account data includes financial institution name, account name, account type, account ownership, branch number, IBAN, BIC, account number, routing number, and sort code, debit card number, credit card number;
Account Balance. Account balance data includes current and available balance.
Commercial Information. Commercial Information includes transaction history and details.
Data from your Devices
When you use a device, like your smartphone, tablet, or computer, We may receive data about that device, including:
IP address
Mobile Device Manufacturer
Mobile Service Provider
Operating System
Browser and technical data about the device
Data from Other Sources
When needed to provide a service or to prevent fraud, abuse, or security threats, we may also receive data about you directly from third parties, including our service providers or identify verification services.
Service Use
We log usage data when you visit or otherwise use our Services, including our sites, Website and platform technology, such as when you view or click on content (e.g., learning video) or ads (on or off our sites and Websites), perform a search, install or update our Website, or send messages. We use log-ins, cookies, device information and internet protocol (“IP”) addresses to identify you and log your use.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels and ad tags) to collect data (e.g., device IDs) to recognize you and your device(s) on, off and across different services and devices where you have engaged with our Services. We also allow some others to use cookies. You can opt out from our use of data from cookies and similar technologies that track your behavior on the sites of others for ad targeting and other ad-related purposes. .
Messages.
We collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage with messages in connection with our Services.
Sites and Services of Others
We receive information about your visits and interaction with services provided by others when you log-in with pitch sink or visit others’ services that include some of our plugins or our ads, cookies or similar technologies.
Other
Our Services are dynamic, and we often introduce new features, which may require the collection of new information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we collect, use or share your data, we will notify you and may also modify this Privacy Policy.
How We Use Your Data
How we use your personal data will depend on which Services you use, how you use those Services and the choices you make in your settings. We use the data that we have about you to provide and personalize our Services, including with the help of automated systems and inferences we make, so that our Services (including ads) can be more relevant and useful to you and others.
How We Use Your Data
We use your data for the following business and commercial purposes:
Provide Services. To operate, provide, and maintain our services.
Develop Existing Services. To improve, enhance, modify, add to, and further develop our services.
Help Prevent Fraud or Protect Privacy. To help protect your and other third parties from fraud, malicious activity, and other privacy and data security-related concerns.
Develop New Services. To develop new products and services.
Develop Insights. To develop insights based on the data we’ve collected about you. This includes your transaction data and data from other sources provide a better experience for you.
Advertising. We target (and measure the performance of) ads to Members, Visitors and others both on and off our Services directly or through a variety of partners
Provide Support. To provide support to you, including to help respond to your inquiries related to our services.
Investigate Misuse and Misconduct. To investigate any misuse of our service, criminal activity, or other unauthorized access to our services.
For Legal Purposes. To comply with contractual and legal obligations under applicable law and for other legal purposes such as to establish and defend against claims.
With Your Consent. For other notified purposes with your consent or at your direction.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third parties’ goods and services that may interest you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please opt out by going to [User Settings > Password & Security].
How We Share Information
Profile
Your profile is fully visible to all user and customers of our Services. Subject to your settings, it can also be visible to others on or off of our Services (e.g., Visitors to our Services or users of third- party search engines). Your settings, degree of connection with the viewing Member, their usage of our Services, access channels and search types (e.g., by name or by keyword) impact the availability of your profile and whether they can view certain fields in your profile.
Our Services allow viewing and sharing information including through posts, engagements, and comments.
Third Parties
We may share your personal information by disclosing it to a third party for business purposes. We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, requires the recipient to keep personal information confidential, and prohibits using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, and on an on-going basis, the Company may disclose personal information such as cookies, commercial information, geolocation data, and internet or similar network activities to gather information about Our user base. We may receive such information on an individual or aggregate basis. We may share or disclose your personal information to partners, affiliates, subsidiaries, internet service providers, data analytic providers, social networks, government entities, advertising networks.
The Company will not discriminate against you for exercising any rights you may have under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) or any other applicable law or rule.
Related Services
We may share your personal data with our affiliates to provide and develop our Services. We may combine information internally across the different Services covered by this Privacy Policy to help our Services be more relevant and useful to you and others. For example, we may personalize your feed or job recommendations based on your learning history.
Legal Disclosures
It is possible that we may need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process or if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) investigate, prevent or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies; (2) enforce our agreements with you; (3) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations; (4) protect the security or integrity of our Services (such as by sharing with companies facing similar threats); or (5) exercise or protect the rights and safety of Procurement, our users, personnel or others. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
Info to Ad Providers
We may share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks including: (i) hashed IDs or device identifiers (to the extent they are personal data in some countries); (ii) with your separate permission (e.g., in a lead generation form) or (iii) data already visible to any users of the Services (e.g., profile). However, if you view or click on an ad on or off our Services, the ad provider will get a signal that someone visited the page that displayed the ad, and they may, through the use of mechanisms such as cookies, determine it is you. Advertising partners can associate personal data collected by the advertiser directly from you with hashed IDs or device identifiers received from us. In such instances, we seek to contractually require such advertising partners to obtain your explicit, opt-in consent before doing so.
Your Rights to Your Personal Information
If you are a resident of a state that has adopted privacy regulations, including the CCPA, you may have additional rights to your personal information. This includes:
Right to Know. You may have a right to know what personal information we collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which it is collected, the business or commercial purposes for collecting, selling, or sharing it, and the categories of third parties to who we disclose it.
Right to Access and Data Portability. You may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we collected about you during the 12 months before your request.
Right to Deletion. You may have the request that we delete information collected from you and retrained.
Right to Out of Selling or Sharing. You may have the right to opt-out of having your personal information sold or shared. To Opt-Out, go to settings and select the Opt-Out Option.
To request the deletion or copy of your personal information, you may contact us at:
info@pitchsink.com
We will confirm receipt of your request within 21 business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the 21-day timeframe, please contact
. We will endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding receipt of your request. Data Retention We generally retain your personal data as long as you keep your account open or for a period during which we reasonably anticipate providing Services. Even after we stop providing services to you, we may retain some personal information to comply with legal and regulatory obligations. We may also retain personal information for fraud monitoring, detection, and prevention activities. California Consumer Privacy Act The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, which was amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (together, “CCPA”) requires businesses like us to provide certain information to California consumers. You Can Opt Out of the Selling and Sharing of Your Personal information The CCPA requires us to disclose if we share or sell your personal information. We may sell or share your personal information, including information about your visits to Procurement, with our partners and third parties to market Procurement’s services to you on other platforms. If you are a member, we may also share your personal information to personalize the ads you see when you use our services. Your Rights Under the CCPA The CCPA provides Californians with the following rights: Requests for Information Like all of our members, you (or your authorized agent) can request a copy of your personal information. Under the CCPA, you can also request that we disclose how we have collected, used, and disclosed your personal information over the past 12 months, including the categories of personal information we collected and our purposes for doing so; the categories of sources for that information; the categories of third parties with whom we shared it or disclosed it for a business purpose and our purposes for doing so. As a company that does sell your personal information, you are also entitled to a list of the categories of personal information we have sold over the past 12 months and an explanation of our commercial purposes for selling personal information Opt out of Sales Under the CCPA, you can opt out of the sale of your personal information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. You can direct us not to share your personal information as previously described. Opt out of Sharing Under the CCPA, you can opt out of the sharing of your personal information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes. You can direct us not to share your personal information as previously described. Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Under the CCPA, you can limit a business’s use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information to certain purposes specified by law (e.g., providing you with services you request or preventing fraud, or for other purposes that don’t involve deriving your attributes). We only use sensitive personal information for such permitted purposes, so we don’t have an opt-out. Your Right to Notification Under the CCPA, a business like ours cannot collect new categories of personal information or use them for materially different purposes without first notifying you. Nondiscrimination for Exercising Your CCPA Rights The CCPA prohibits businesses from discriminating against you for exercising your rights under the law. Such discrimination may include denying services, charging different prices or rates for services, providing a different level or quality of services, or suggesting that you will receive a different level or quality of goods or services as a result of you exercising your rights. Your Right to Correct Inaccurate Personal Information You can edit much of your personal information through your account (such as your profile information). You can also request that we correct inaccurate personal information. Your Right to Delete Personal Information You can request that we delete your personal information by closing your account or by requesting that we delete specific information about you. We honor such requests unless an exception applies, such as when the information is necessary to complete the transaction or contract for which it was collected or when information is being used to detect, prevent, or investigate security incidents, comply with laws, identify and repair bugs, or ensure another consumer’s ability to exercise their free speech rights or other rights provided by law. Statement Regarding Selling or Sharing the Personal Information of Consumers Under Age 16 CCPA regulations require businesses to state whether they have actual knowledge that they have sold or shared the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. As stated in our user agreement, Procurement services are not for use by anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly provide services to anyone under the age of 16 nor do we have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under 16 years of age. Therefore, we have no knowledge of sharing the personal information of consumers under the age of 16. Changes to Our Privacy Policy We may update our privacy policy from time to time. If we make changes to how we treat your personal information, we will post the new privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated.